Altering Stop and Frisk: You are walking down an alley way‚ trying to take the quickest route home to make it to dinner on time. Suddenly‚ a cop stops you‚ telling you to drop your belongings and put your hands in the air. You are shocked‚ scared‚ and confused‚ while being stripped of your dignity. Stop and Frisk arose around the mid 90’s. It was a means of stopping crime before it occurs. However‚ the reason behind the sudden stops was categorized as racially discriminatory‚ and offensive. In March
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Stop & Frisk is a procedure done by police officers to search for weapons or any items that can cause harm to others. If the officer has probable cause and feels like the person is going to commit a crime or has a weapon‚ then they will go to the person to do a stop & frisk. The officer stops the person and runs his/her hands over the person’s outer clothes to see if they do in fact have a weapon. The search is supposed to be done very carefully and lightly to not overstep any boundaries or rights
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patrol car 1151. I responded to the 8500 block of Dowling St to assist OPD units with the search of an attempt murder suspect. As I was driving to the scene OPD helicopter unit advised that the suspect (later ID as Christopher Malik) was hiding in the rear yard of 8515 Dowling St. Once I arrived on scene‚ units advised that the perimeter was set. I then proceeded to assemble a search team with an OPD k-9 to search for the suspect. Due to the nature of the incident I deployed my department issued riffle
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Police Search warrant (AFFIDAVIT) Detective Lisa Ivory swears under oath that the facts expressed by her in this search warrant and Affidavit. and in the attached and incorporated statement of probable cause are true and that based thereon‚ she has probable cause to believe that property and/or person described below is lawfully seizable pursuant to Penal Code Section 1524 as indicated below‚ and is how located set forth below. Wherefore‚ The people of the State of California to any Sheriff‚ Police
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citizens or about 1.5%. The increase of arrests was definitely due to policy change‚ as is illustrated when comparing population growth numbers by the increase in people actually stopped and those arrested. Current law allows police officers to conduct stop and frisk searches of persons based on reasonable suspicion‚ as determined by Terry v. Ohio where supreme court decisions determined that individuals can be searched not only for probable cause (where an individual is under suspicion of committing
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English 102-220 Dr. Elliott July 9‚ 2013 Position Paper-Draft New York City Stop and Frisk Policy In the city where crime was at all time high during the nineties‚ the top politicians in New York City decided that something should be done to help stop crime. The NYPD implemented the “Stop and Frisk” policy to bring the crime rate down in the city. However it did more than exceed its expectations and it has been more of a negative than a positive. This policy created tension between the NYPD and
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world where police officers are suppose to be protected and help us out when needed. The reality of it is police officers are out here on the beat violating are constitutional rights. Stop and frisk was to help fight crime on the streets but all it caused was racial profiling by officers everyday for the last twelve years. Stop and frisk has been used and abused and young adults are afraid to leave their house because they know they will be harassed for no good reason. Stop and frisk has caused a
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Stop and Frisk page2 Abstract This paper was written to take a look at both sides of the stop and frisk program. By examining both sides I hope to show the effectiveness of the program‚ but not to leave out the possible negative effects also. There is no doubt that this program has gain a lot of negative attention‚ the main controversial issue at hand is that the people feel that it gives the cops to much authority to stop anyone they can. This program is to believe that it is a way to
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cops. Lethal red and blue lights cast circles on the concrete around you. The police car stops and two officers get out of the car and prevent you from walking any further. They interrogate you and then they frisk you. Even though what you are experiencing is demoralizing‚ you realize that it is something that you would have become accustomed to because you are an African American living in New York City.Stop and frisk promotes institutionalized racism which negatively affects minorities living in
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Business 28A 81110 Professor A. Chen November 25‚ 2014 A dominant group of research has shown that the stop-and -frisk has brought a huge issue regarding racial profiling (Alpert‚ Dunham‚ & Smith‚ 2007). Specifically‚ African American and Latino New Yorkers were overwhelmingly targeted for stop-and-frisk activity (Stop-and-Frisk‚ 2011). The activity of stop-and-frisk is an action that any police officer can partake in whenever they feel like they have the factor of doing so. Meaning that it is their initiative
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