Pros And Cons Of Stop And Frisk

(Rosentha & Rudovsky et al., 2013) Stop and frisk is a crime prevention and reduction tactic, which permits a police officer the ability to stop a person based off of one’s reasonable suspicion of the individual possible criminal activity. A frisk is based off of the officer’s reasonable suspicion toward a subject. Reasonable suspicion is a standard procedure for safety procedure that intends to keep the public safe. Reasonable suspicion is used to determine the state of being accordance with the law, of an officer decision to perform a search. When an officer stops an individual to search them, it is required that the officer must have a search warrant, probable cause to search, or reasonable suspicion to search. Doing this stop and frisk action without those elements, would go against societies rights. The fourteenth amendment, which is adopted in 1868 that addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. This amendment grants citizenship and equalization to

2014) Although stop and frisk had negative aspect with racial profiling and police bias, it was created out of positive intensions. The purpose of stop and frisk is to reduce crime in our communities, by checking indiviuals that may be carrying illegal weapons and narcotics. The stop and frisk purpose is to reduce criminal behaviors, and prevent crime in our area. In which statistics does show that incorporating this action within our communities did indeed reduce those illegal carrying and deterred the individual because they felt they would get stopped and search while out in public, and feared the consequences. Citizens view the police and the stop and frisk action strongly contribute to their willingness to abide by the law with enmpowered law enforcement. This minizing te negative effects of stop and frisk is crucial for overall police success in producing the desired results of less crime, and improving relations with communities of