Stop And Frisk Case Study

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In the case Floyd v. New York there was a spectrum of public policy concerns that were raised in the New York City area that allowed NYPD to begin their Stop and Frisk procedures.
If law enforcement, and other officials had concerns for the public wellbeing of health, safety and welfare of its people, they reserved the right to create polices such as stop and frisk to uphold public order for the safety of the people. New York City at this time had of high crime rates and there was public concern for the number of murders by the use of gun in New York City area. They wanted to implement a plan that would allow them to protect the health, safety and welfare of their citizens and community by using the stop and frisk as a way to prevent crime …show more content…

The United States District Court held that the NYPD procedures to stop and frisk were unconstitutional. They held that there were unconstitutional because the stop and frisk procedure was performed predominantly more on Black and Hispanics and was considered racial profiling. The use of racial profiling is unconstitutional and a violation of one’s fourth and fourteenth amendment rights. The fourth amendment of the constitution protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures, while the fourteenth amendment grants individuals equal protection outlined in “equal protection clause.” Officials must have probable cause or reasonable suspicion to issue the search or seizure of any individual. In the case of stop and frisk in New York City individuals' rights were being violated because officers were conducting searches on the basis of race, without any probable cause or suspicion. It is illegal to racial profile individual and because these searches were being conducted under the basis of race officer was also in violation of the equal protection clause which doesn't allow individuals to be discriminated on based on their race in which officer were doing. Stop and Frisk became very unconstitutional in the eyes of the law and many New

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