Stop and Frisk: the Downside to a Decrease in Crime By Boli Bencosme Pace University LAW 101 – 50271 2012 Summer 2 Session Prof. John Paul Research Paper “Stop and Frisk” is a program put into effect by the New York Police Department that basically grants an officer authority to stop and search a “suspicious character” if they deem him/her to be as such. They don’t need a warrant‚ or see you commit a crime. 5They simply need to deem you “suspicious” to violate
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Stop and frisk is a controversial topic which has many retractors as supporters. On internet the information about this topic is really broad. However‚ in this response I did a research based on pros of the stop and frisk program. I took information from newspapers‚ TV channels‚ blogs‚ forums‚ research of universities. Moreover‚ I looked for other topics related such as; increase of violence‚ illegal guns‚ gun violence‚ weapons in schools‚ and also‚ gangs in NYC. Even though‚ people who are in
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these indirectly targets people of color. Stop and Frisk policy is mainly known in the state of New York. Research shows that the stop and frisk policy is of racial bias and unconstitutional. People of African and Spanish descent are stopped and frisk more than Caucasians (An Analysis of the NYPD ’s Stop-and-Frisk Policy in the Context of Claims of Racial Bias). It was deemed unconstitutional by a judge named Shira A. Scheindlin stating that the stop and frisk policy violates the 4th Amendment and the
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January 2012 Abstract This paper will show how current “Stop and Frisk” (Terry Stop‚ SQF) methods exercised presently diverge greatly from the initial precedent allowed in Terry v. Ohio (1968) due to the inability to concretely define reasonable suspicion as well as the broad applications of reasonable suspicion since 1968. The most notable current representation involves The New York Police Department (NYPD) and its policy regarding Terry Stops as a proactive crime prevention and investigative tool
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have become overly politically correct in recent years. Currently it is hard to say anything about someone else‚ that is not considered offensive to Democrats. It is true that in around 85% of stop and frisk situations ‚ the individual has been found to have done nothing wrong. But if using stop and frisk as necessary drops the crime rate as much as it did in New York City‚ then it is worth using this form of policing. The Republican policies are clearly much better to run a society than Democrat
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NYPD: Stop‚ Question & Frisk Policy A New Style of Policing or a Crime Fighting Tool? Racial Profiling in the Criminal Justice system. Racial Profiling has been argued to be a very ineffective style of community policing in the criminal justice system. Using the New York City Police Department‚ “Stop‚ Question & Frisk” Policy as a model‚ I will show that profiling has led to lower crime rates which is shown from a current and historical point of view. Using history
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Stop and frisk is very beneficial because the law enforcement officers has a reasonable suspicion to stop an individual if a crime has occurred or plan to occur. “Stop and frisk is essential to the probable cause and warrant requirements.” (Hall‚ p. 415‚ 2015). Many times law enforcement officers do not follow the stop and frisk and abuse the law by doing the opposite by following the law. It is important that law enforcement take authority when necessary instead of making citizens feel unsafe and
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The “stop and frisk” or “Terry frisk” law is one of the most controversial laws in America. The law came about via a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that the Fourth Amendment is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks him or her without probable cause to arrest. This only holds if the police officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed‚ is committing‚ or is about to commit a crime and has a reasonable belief
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Stop-and-Frisk: Cleaning up the Streets‚ or Racial Profiling at its Finest? Taryn Konkler Introduction to Law Enforcement Professor Michael Glendon Imagine innocently walking down the street in a city you’ve lived in your whole life‚ when all of a sudden you hear the dreaded “woop woop” and see those flashing red and blue lights. The police. They interrogate you‚ ask your whereabouts‚ and finally‚ they “frisk” you. Of course‚ they find nothing; they rarely
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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 a specific
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