stop and frisk
Street search practice
Stop and frisk is a police practice of briefly detaining and patting down a person suspected of criminal activity.
Officers search for concealed weapons or contraband.
The practice became controversial as a racial profiling issue, particularly in New York City, where it disproportionately targeted Black and Latino men: The department's stop-and-frisk policy faced legal challenges.
- pat downManual body search
- searchAct of seeking
- racial profilingLaw enforcement by skin color
- lawBinding principle or regulation
- policeCivil law enforcement
pocket · patrol · detention · officer · suspect · exclusionary rule · implicit bias · police brutality · reasonable suspicion · judicial oversight · probable cause · law enforcement · Fourth Amendment · search and seizure · constitutional rights · badge · question · broken windows
- police reformpolice brutality, police misconduct, body cameras, community oversight, qualified immunity
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- discriminationracism, systemic discrimination, Jim Crow laws, sexism, racial harassment
- police powerpolice authority, police discretion, police conduct, police accountability, police oversight
- police relationscommunity policing, police accountability, police oversight, public trust, community outreach
- political controversiesabortion, gun control, voter suppression, gerrymandering, affirmative action
stop and frisknon-intervention
Policy of staying uninvolved
no contact · arrest · walking away · booking · verbal warning
stop and friskprivacy rights
Entitlement to personal seclusion
presumption of innocence · civil liberties · bodily autonomy · freedom of movement · constitutional protection
stop and friskcommunity policing
Partnership-based crime prevention
restorative justice · de-escalation · community engagement · non-intervention · harm reduction
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