Stop And Frisk Case Study

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Leadership Considerations to Stop and Frisk Any police encounter with a citizen or suspect there is potential for confrontation for various reasons. The most common is the suspect knows the officer is likely to discover the suspect has cause for arrest and will attempt avoiding arrest. A less common, but no less significant reason is a citizen will refute an officers’ lawful intervention, when the citizen perceives they have been subject to racial profiled, the suspected crime should not be illegal i.e. marijuana, citizenship status, crimes committed at a demonstration, and certainly “Stop and Frisk”, that all amount to the belief that the officer has no right to interact with the citizen when in fact the officer does. Staunch disregard of the officer’s authority quickly develops into a situation where the citizen refuses to capitulate despite the officer’s best efforts and the officer is inclined to follow training and doctrine of escalating force, even for citations and …show more content…
Disdain for the NYPD (in this case) transcends race because there a several inst
Several recent officers involved deaths such as the Eric Garner case, personify this condition. Two NYPD officers approached Garner under the suspicion of selling “loosies” or loose untaxed cigarettes on a street corner. While illegal, the typical penalty is a citation for less than $300, but up to a misdemeanor charge. When confronted, Garner refused to comply with officers Daniel Pantaleo and Justin Damico and a struggle ensued. In the end, Garner lost his life and the city (taxpayers) paid a settlement of $5.9 million dollars to the surviving family (J. David Goodman, 2014). Garner was no stranger to criminal encounters having a record of thirty arrests since 1980, with charges that included assault, resisting arrest, and grand larceny. Many of these charges stemmed from selling