Essays on Frisking

According to the fourth amendment Act, if the police suspect that an individual has a reason to believe that a crime is going to be committed, they have a right to stop a citizen and search them briefly. A frisk is a pat down of a person’s outer clothing in search of possessions which are considered armful and dangerous . There are various issues which are associated with the stop and frisk campaign with concerns being raised over the possibility of racial discrimination, violation of privacy rights and illegal stops. Blacks and Latinos are more likely to be stopped ...

The stop- and- frisk is a brief interception and search of a suspect by police. The law stipulates that the police should have a reason for frisking like when they suspect that someone has been or is about to be involved in crime. This policy has been a controversial issue and has resulted in many lawsuits against the police. Stop and frisk has been seen to be abusive to people's right to privacy, contributive to racial profiling and sometimes illegal stops have been made by police. The stop and frisk method is ineffective in protecting people since it has ...

According to Secret (1), a New York City a police officer was charged with violating a black man’s civil rights. The police officer was charged after accusing the black man of resisting arrest. The officer Daragjati, used a racial slur to boast about the arrest. The officer was also charged with extortion, making a death threat and fraud in other episodes. Officer Micheal Daragjati who is white and acts as a plain clothes police officer was charged in condemnation in a Brooklyn Federal District Court for frisking a black man in Targee Street (Secret 3).

The black man was arrested by the police officer because he ...