How Stop and Frisk Policies Unfairly Target Minorities in Illinois and New York

Abstract

Research Terry v. Ohio concerning IL and NY to infer the ability to deter crime or is it racially driven tactic? Outline Brief summary of Terry v. Ohio case ruling Analysis of Terry policing approaches in regard to race as argued by different scholar Confirmations that stop and frisk practices are racially driven tactics Introduction An effective policing approach is one that enhances police-public relation which in return helps stop or lower crime rates. However, when the policing approach is racially perceived, it causes more harm than good. While analyzing Terry v. Ohio concerning Illinois and New York to determine whether the policing approach infer the ability to deter crime of if it is a racially driven tactic, one can confirm that race enhances inequality in policing hindering crime prevention. Although the court decision on Terry v. Ohio of 1968 instructed how police officers could make lawful traffic and pedestrian stops and one can confirm that with time law enforcers have taken advantage of this ruling to manipulate the public at the expense of their race. It is also imperative to note that the ruling supplemented the probable cause that a person was engaging in crime with reasonable suspicion in efforts to protect law enforcer and pubic from danger and weapons as a jurisdiction for a stop which gave police officers great authority to enforce the stop and frisk tactics to their targets. In their article "Police stop and frisk and the impact of race: A focal concerns theory approach" Vito, George and Gennaro (2021, Pg,1) outlined the racial differences in stop and frisk decisions by IL officers in consent searches and those based upon reasonable suspicion within the context of focal concerns theory element. Based on their report Black male citizens were more likely to experience the stop and frisk policing approaches from Illinois police officers. These targets upon being stopped experience through search which the police attribute to an assessment of reasonable suspicion due to their race that defines such populace as blameworthy. Further report from Vito’s article confirms that, following such a racially driven practice led America citizens complain as expressed in Floyd et...