[wideawake]

The police stop and frisk people at random? Really?

Do you honestly not know what a Terry stop is?

Really?

[randomhero97]

Well, a Terry stop does require reasonable suspicion so it isn’t completely random.

[green iguana]

“Do you honestly not know what a Terry stop is?”

You apparently don’t.

[Jack Black]

No, I do not know what a "Terry Stop" is, really. I go decades without interfacing with the police at all. I'll google it and get up to speed.

I guess I just have a simplistic out-of-date idea about what the Constitution's prohibition on unreasonable search-and-seizure means. To me it means a cop can't come up to you and frisk you just because he wants to.

Here's the Wikipedia article on the "Terry Stop". It says that they have to have a reasonable suspicion of a crime. That's not the same as random.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

The folks who are against this practice in NYC describe a practice that sounds more random than a Terry stop — no “reasonable suspicion based on specific articulable facts” is present, so they say. That doesn’t mean they’re telling it like it is, though.