Stop and Frisk in the United States

Stop and Frisk

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled STOP AND FRISKMost courts recognize that a police officer has the authority to detain a person briefly for questioning even without probable cause to believe that the person is guilty of a crime. The Supreme Court first addressed the “stop and frisk” issue in terry v. ohio (1968) . In Terry, an
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