Supreme Court in the case of Terry v. Ohio, rendered a decision that will greatly aid the police in their efforts to prevent crime and apprehend criminals. That decision, however, must not be interpreted by the police as a green light for indiscriminate, arbitrary stopping and friski...
“ Later known as the “stop and frisk” case, Terry v. Ohio represents a clash between Fourth Amendment protection from intrusive, harassing conduct by police when no crime has been committed, and the duty of an officer to investigate suspicious behavior and prevent crime.”(Police Practices ...
2Stop-and-frisk has a complicated legal history, which we only briefly address in this paper. For a more comprehensive review, see Gelman, Fagan and Kiss (2007). 3There are some exceptions to this general rule. For example, the U.S. Supreme Court has found sobriety checkpoints to be ...
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....
I.Stop,Question,Frisk:Whatisit?2 II.HowOftenPoliceStopsOccur3 III.WhereStopsOccur5 IV.ReasonsforStops8 V.WhatHappensDuringStopsandStop Outcomes10 VI.IncreasingStops,ModestReturns11 VII.WhoGetsStopped14 VIII.WhatOccursDuringStopsandOutcomes ForPersonsFromDifferentRacial/Ethnic ...
On June 10, 1999, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Terry v. Ohio, rendered a decision that will greatly aid the police in their efforts to prevent crime and apprehend criminals. That decision, however, must not be interpreted by the police as a green light for ...
Ability to detain given greater scrutiny and is now more restrictiveScuro, Joseph E., Jr
John Q. Barrett
The Law and Social Science of Stop and Friskdoi:10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102612-134043In 1968, almost 50 years ago, the Supreme Court validated, in a case called Terry v. Ohio (1968) , a common police practice known as stop and frisk, so long asSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
A more critical issue, I submit, is the mismatch between the level of analysis at which the Supreme Court articulated the relevant test for constitutional justification of a stop and frisk in Terry v. Ohio , and the scale at which police today (and historically) engage in stop and frisk ...