Everybody has a sense of suspicion when things start seeming fishy. Have you ever felt in danger or unsafe in certain places or at a certain time. Police officers need to be able to search people, whenever they are suspicious that they are endangering the environment or the people in the city. When officers have the right to search people under reasonable suspicion they are doing their job by keeping the citizens safe. The officer from Ohio (Detective McFadden) was doing exactly what he was hired to do, keep the people safe. Terry was seen by an officer, he was walking by the store and was in contact with a partner. Terry and his partner walking back and forth as if they were planning to rob the store. The officer approached them and did a quick frisk to search for any concealed weapons. Terry had a concealed weapon and was later charged for carrying a concealed weapon. Officer McFadden had the right to “stop and frisk” the two suspicious men.…show more content… An officer can detain somebody with handcuffs, but it may not mean that they are arrested. If somebody isn’t complying to the officer they can be legally detained with handcuffs. Detention is when you are limiting someone’s freedom. When Officer McFadden first encountered Terry and his partner it started off as a detention, because it was a later time of the day which made things even more suspicious. “The grounds the police gave for detaining suspects in Terry were that it was late night at a small shopping center, stores closed, car parked in shopping mall lot, sever men standing around the car talking. The court ruled that was sufficient in Terry for the police officer to detain, that is stop the men to ask them for an explanation of their presence there.” Currently I am a CHP explorer and one of the officers told me that you can detain anybody being suspicious and even put them in handcuffs if they are not listening to your orders without them being under
