Stop And Frisk Case Study

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The constitutionality and scope of conducting a frisk were again called into question in Minnesota v. Dickerson. Dickerson exited a building which had a reputation for being involved in cocaine trafficking, but turned and walked the other way when he saw police officers. The officers caught up with him and frisked him. The frisking officer felt a lump which he believed to be a bag of cocaine. He reached into the respondent’s pocket and confirmed this suspicion. The seizure here was called into question because the frisk revealed only what the officer thought to be contraband, not a weapon. The Court concluded that since the frisk was conducted lawfully the officer was allowed to seize the contraband. This case was something of a controversy because it opened the door to questions about whether officers are allowed to conduct a frisk believing a person only to have …show more content…
In a Brooklyn Law Review article entitled Stop and Frisk City, Fallon (2013) writes, “...as a result [of the ambiguity of lower courts’ decisions on stop and frisk], there are few checks on the tremendous discretion given to the NYPD in the stop and frisk context. In 2012 alone, ‘New Yorkers were stopped by the police 532,911 times. 473,644 were totally innocent (89%), 284,229 were Black (55%), 165,140 were Latino (32%), [and] 50,366 were White (10%)’" (p. 321). This quote contains two of the common arguments against stop and frisk. First, 89% of those stopped were totally innocent. This is one of the most commonly cited statistics by critics of the policy, and with good reason. Terry narrowly outlined why an officer may stop and frisk a person, yet the New York City numbers suggest that officers are making stops and frisking beyond when they have reasonable suspicion and may be motivated by other

Stop And Frisk Case Study

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