THE FIRST TIME David Floyd was stopped and frisked, on a Friday afternoon in April 2007, he was...Sullum, Jacob
The decision ofTerry v. Ohio(1968), created a president for police officers to pat down or “frisk” a suspect under certain conditions: such as when reasonable suspicion of a crime, or for the officers safety. This created what is known as a “terry stop”, or stop and frisk....
Despite being deemed unconstitutional because of its impact on minorities, Mr Trump has previously said "stop-and-frisk works" and urged Chicago to adopt the strategy. After West warned "stop-and-frisk does not help relationships in the city", the president said he would be willing to "look ...
We have moved from a primetime television show casting a white cop as the villain, to having people say Black Lives Matter is a hate group, and having our President-elect endorse stop and frisk in Black neighborhoods. New scarcity is on the rise. Image from Mental Floss For many Americans...
How the Criminalization of Black and Brown People Continues Today: Racial Profiling in Stop-and-Frisk Practices Racial profiling through stop-and-frisk policing has a long history in the United States. This discretionary law enforcement policy intensified after 1968, when the Supreme Court ruled in...
and points to the case of Floyd, et al v. City of New York, wherein plaintiffs used available data to demonstrate that 90% of those targeted by the city’s stop-and-frisk program (which subjects citizens in public to physical searches, when deemed suspicious by police) were black or La...
The true victims are thousands of children who were torn away from their parents at the border andconfined topenned areas. The victims are the black and brown people who will once again see an unconstitutional abuse of power ifstop-and-friskis reinstated and expanded, as Trumphas expressedthe...
Though physically invasive and admittedly unconstitutional, a physical pat-down is still better than being blasted with a concentrated vortex of electrical and magnetic energy. As it sweeps around your body, the full body scanner exposes each square centimeter of your body to about 0.013 milliwatts ...
The author looks at police practices and crime in New York City, criticizing U.S. federal judge Shira Scheindlin's August 2013 ruling that the New York City police department's use of stop-and-frisk is based on racial and ethnic profiling and hence unconstitutional.Wall Street Journal - ...