No abstract is available for this item.doi:10.1002/pam.21997Theodore JoyceJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdJournal of Policy Analysis & Management
Dylan Matthews
De Blasio was elected last year after a campaign in which one of his central platform promises was to reform a police department that had a long history of civil rights complaints, including a 2013 federal court ruling that found its "stop-and-frisk" policy unconstitutional. In September, a ...
(For information about the level of suspicion police officers must have in order to detain or arrest, see What's the difference between an arrest and a detention or "stop and frisk"?) Sometimes it's clear someone is under arrest—for instance, when the officer specifically says so...
with the 2000 case ofIllinois v. Wardlow, in which theU.S. Supreme Courtconfirmed that the police, based on the legal doctrine ofprobable cause, have the authority to detain and physically search, or “stop-and-frisk,” people in crime-prone neighborhoods who appear to be behaving ...
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...
orders aggressively (see Cave & Dahir, 2020), enforcement of public health orders in the United States is complicated by the Fourth Amendment since that constitutional provision limits police authority to stop, question, frisk, or arrest people absent certain quanta of proof (White & Fradella, ...
New York City's controversialStop-and-Frisk policyis a classic example of a policy that was designed to do good but actually does harm. This policy allows police officers to stop, question, and search any person who they deem suspicious in any way. Following the terrorist attack on New York...
But it gives the federal tax cops another way to establish probable cause for a financial stop-and-frisk.” Imagine if the IRS invented a reason to peek, then funneled some of your business income straight into their coffers in order to “pay your fair share”? Then imagine if the plan...
and-frisk programme in 2015. The data show that police disproportionately patrol Black, immigrant and Latinx neighbourhoods and disproportionately stop young Black men. In cases like this of overcounting, it is important to be tuned into which groups hold power and which groups are likel...