Supreme Court in the 1968 Terry v. Ohio decision as a temporary detention of a person about whom the officer has reasonable suspicion that he or she is committing or may be about to commit a crime.” (107-108) Due to the nature of stop and frisks, that being the need for only reasonable suspicion, problems with this tactic are bound to arise. The first problem, similar to most tactics the police try to employ, does it actually reduce crime in a meaningful way. Even if, like the other previous tactics, it focus on prevention rather than direct prevention. “In the 381,704 frisks in 2011, meanwhile, officers seized a total of only 780 guns, for a “success” rate of 1.9 percent for all frisks and a 1.1 percent for all stops.” (108) With these numbers, a legitimacy of this tactic is hard to rationalize. But like most things, there can not always be
Supreme Court in the 1968 Terry v. Ohio decision as a temporary detention of a person about whom the officer has reasonable suspicion that he or she is committing or may be about to commit a crime.” (107-108) Due to the nature of stop and frisks, that being the need for only reasonable suspicion, problems with this tactic are bound to arise. The first problem, similar to most tactics the police try to employ, does it actually reduce crime in a meaningful way. Even if, like the other previous tactics, it focus on prevention rather than direct prevention. “In the 381,704 frisks in 2011, meanwhile, officers seized a total of only 780 guns, for a “success” rate of 1.9 percent for all frisks and a 1.1 percent for all stops.” (108) With these numbers, a legitimacy of this tactic is hard to rationalize. But like most things, there can not always be