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Should police departments be able to stop, question and frisk pedestrians upon reasonable suspicion?

In 1968 the Supreme Court ruled that police in the U.S. may momentarily detain and search a person who they suspect is committing a crime. On August 12, 2013 a U.S. District Court Judge ruled that the New York City Police Department's stop and frisk policy was unconstitutional. In 2011 684,000 people were stopped and frisked in New York City with the wide majority of these individuals being Latino or African-American. Of every eight people stopped, one was accused of a crime.

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 @ISIDEWITHDiscuss this answer...13yrs13Y

Yes, if there is probable cause

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No, these policies tend to unfairly target minorities and should be outlawed

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Yes, police departments should be able to set their own policies without interference from the justice department

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No

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Yes

 @MZC25C from Minnesota  answered…6yrs6Y

probable cause, BUT insure the public is aware they will have a complaint process by which the officers will be held accountable...

 @N2V4QY from Washington  answered…6yrs6Y

I firmly believe in profiling. Israel is a forerunner in this area and we could learn a lot from following their example. When TSA are frisking 4 year old and not the obvious young Arab, we have issues.

 @KWJCL3 from Ohio  answered…6yrs6Y

No, The only justifiable reason would be if there is a definite probable cause. Police should not be allowed to stop and frisk on a whim.

 @MXX5SG from Utah  answered…6yrs6Y

I think officers should have a camera on them. as long as their is a video to show how it was handled, then stop and frisk should be allowed.

 @MY72BR from Kansas  answered…6yrs6Y

Only if there is probably cause and/or closely, accurately fits the description of a reported suspect of a crime. The officer should have to be ready to support her/his reasoning for stopping the suspect when the circumstance is called into question. Detailed training needs to be provided to increase accuracy of these procedures, just as shooting training and accuracy is required.
Along with this and as a measure to ensure better policing in this and other regards, quotas should be illegal. If policing is successful stops, and arrests should decline, therefore having quotas which pressure officers to make arrests in counter intuitive as well as counter productive, and take away their time from real crime prevention and deterrent tactics.

 @MY7V8T from Washington  answered…6yrs6Y

there are only a few officers that have wisdom guiding them. there are a lot more misbehaving a$$holes, jerks, idiots, trigger-happy, above-the-law attitudes in the force. the excuse "we're just doing our job" is an often excuse and fail to question the legality of whet they are being told/ordered to do by their superiors. others act as a result of too much testosterone.

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