Around 60 years ago in 1968, the US Supreme Court validated, in the case Terry v. Ohio, that law enforcement had the right to pat down a suspects outer clothing for illegal items as long as the officer had reasonable suspicions to do so. At the time, it was unlikely that the Supreme Court would have predicted how widespread, popular, and controversial this decision would be (Meares). The decision led to what is now known as the stop, question, and frisk policy (SQF), which is a practice employed…
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