Stop And Furisk Law

One day a black man was walking through his neighborhood after a long day of work. This man was approached by two uniformed police officers who demanded that he stop. As the man halts he asked the officers “is there a problem officer” one officer replied by saying “we need to search you are there any drugs or weapons we need to know about”. The man states “No, but can you tell me why I’m being searched”. The officer continues to search the man and finds nothing. After the search, the man is free to go without explanation, but the officers tell him it was a part of the stop and frisk law. However, according to the Fourth Amendment, the stop and frisk law granted officers the right to stop and frisk an individual based on reasonable suspicion.” By law, the officer must have reasonable suspicion that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed by the suspect. If the officer reasonably suspects that the suspect is armed and dangerous, the police may frisk the suspect, meaning that the officer has the right to give a quick pat-down of the suspect's outer clothing” (Cornell …show more content…
Many believe that the stop and frisk law conducted by the New York Police Department violates citizens privacy. Not only do they feel a violation of privacy but many minorities feel targeted by racial profiling and illegal stops. “An analysis conducted by the New York City Liberties Union revealed that innocent New Yorkers have been subjected to police stops and street interrogations more than 4 million times since 2002. In this analysis, it was also found that black and Latino communities continued to be the target of tactics used by the New York Police Department. It was found that about nine out of 10 New York citizens stopped-and-frisked by New York Police were completely innocent, according to the New York Police Department’s own reports”( New York Civil Liberties