Stop and Frisk is by no means new to the United States, in fact the original term for it was “Terry Stop”. A "Terry Stop" by definition is the temporary detainment of a person by law enforcement officers based on "reasonable suspicion" that the person may have been engaged in criminal activity, whereas an arrest requires "probable cause" that a suspect committed a criminal offense. The name comes from the standards established in a 1968 case, Terry v. Ohio. The case started from a Cleveland police officer arresting three men based on suspicion. Patrolling the downtown area like he had been for many years, the officer spotted two strangers on a street corner. He saw them walking back and forth in front of a store window. Suspecting the two men …show more content…
Constitution states "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."(USLegal.com) The only purpose of this amendment is to protect people’s right to privacy and freedom from police intrusions. The Fourth Amendment protection does not expand to government intrusion and information collection collected in open fields such as emails or recorded messages. The probable cause is, the same standard required to be met in the issuance of an arrest warrant, and must be satisfied by conditions existing prior to the policeman's stop, what is discovered thereafter not sufficing to establish a backdated reasonable cause. With all of the precautions in place to protect citizens, lawmakers still find ways to play the grey areas of the law. Through this they can still persecute minorities at will in this country through a legal and supported form of racial profiling. This method is no different from the 50’s and 60’s when police would terrorize innocent minorities’ based on probable