Stop-and-frisk in New York City

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In New York City, stop-question-and-frisk program, or stop-and-frisk is a New York City Police Department (NYPD) practice of temporarily detaining, questioning, and at times searching civilians and suspects on the street for weapons and other contraband. This is what is known in other places in the United States as the Terry stop. The rules for the policy are contained in the state's criminal procedure law section 140.50 and based on the decision of the US Supreme Court in the case of Terry v. Ohio. In 2016, a reported 12,404 stops were made under the stop-and-frisk program. The stop-and-frisk program has previously taken place on a much wider scale. Between 2003 and 2013, over 100,000 stops were made per year, with 685,724 people being stopped at the height of the program in 2011. On average, from 2002 to 2013, the percentage of individuals stopped without any convictions was 87.6%. The program also became the subject of a racial-profiling controversy. Ninety percent of those stopped...

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