stop-and-frisk program

…York Police Department’s so-called “stop-and-frisk” practice, which allowed police officers to detain, question, and search suspected individuals without probable cause. Whereas many criticized this practice as unfairly targeting minorities, Bloomberg defended it as a necessary tool of crime prevention. When Bloomberg’s last term ended, in 2013, he was succeeded…

…commitment to reform the so-called stop-and-frisk program of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) authorizing police officers to stop, question, and search individuals suspected of criminal activity without the need of probable cause. Seen by some as an effective crime-reduction tool, the NYPD stop-and-frisk practice was decried by many,…

…that police encounters known as stop-and-frisks, in which members of the public are stopped for questioning and patted down for weapons and drugs without probable cause (a reasonable belief that a crime has been or is about to be committed), do not necessarily violate the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable…