And if they suspect the person has a weapon, they will proceed to frisk.
He claimed the boy was jaywalking and when stopped, started "yelling and making a scene" and "fighting" when the patrolmen tried to frisk him.
Witnesses reported that the surprisingly light police deployment had done little to frisk fans for weapons before a tense standoff between longtime rival teams.
Philadelphia settled a civil rights lawsuit last year over its stop-and-frisk program by agreeing to court monitoring, and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee backed off plans to adopt stop and frisk after weeks of criticism last summer.
This lawsuit is one of three federal legal challenges to stop and frisk before Judge Scheindlin.
Awaiting discussion is Cuomo's proposed restrictions to the stop and frisk tactic being used by New York City police and the governor's plan to de-criminalize the small amounts of marijuana often found during the frisks.
"We can't depend on Speaker Quinn to reform stop and frisk if she won't acknowledge there is a problem, " he said.
But after the important things are accounted for, we then have to hope that our frisk of the room has been enough.
And Barthez demonstrated United's frayed nerves when he inexplicably handled outside his area after 21 minutes, but again Swedish official Frisk failed to see the infringement.
Mr. Williams said he called the mayor to apologize but stands by his position that the NYPD is misusing the tactic and that the administration is using "spin and selective statistics" to sell stop and frisk as a life-saving tool.
Chelsea said a report would be sent to Uefa about an apparent half-time meeting between Frisk and Rijkaard while the build up to the return leg started with Barca's players criticising the tactics of the opponents.
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If stop-and-frisk makes it to the highest court in the land, the ruling might be more than a matter of academic interest for Mr. Bratton.
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Ohio, which held that a police officer is allowed to stop, question and frisk a person on the street if the officer has "reasonable suspicion" that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime.
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But city officials, including New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, continue to defend stop-and-frisk.
After several lawsuits challenging the practice, a federal judge is now weighing whether remedies are needed to prevent unconstitutional "stop and frisk" encounters.
Officers receive extensive training at the academy, a training officer is assigned to police precincts and the department has beefed up safeguards to the stop-and-frisk policy.
The inspector general would function on a macro level weighing in on policy, while the court monitor would enforce nuts-and-bolts changes related to the stop-and-frisk policy.
As Bloomberg's third, and last, term nears its end in January, Jealous said he expects the city's new mayor to oppose stop-and-frisk tactics, along with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The city defends the tactic, which allows officers to stop, question and sometimes frisk people on the street when there is reasonable suspicion of a crime, as a successful crime-fighting tool.
Says we here in Chicago are doing stop and frisk, he points to you know, the eight, ten thousand guns we pull off the street every year and says, you don't think people are just coming up to us and giving those to us do you?
She said talks were progressing on three companion proposals to set new rules surrounding stop and frisk, including expanding protections against racial profiling.
It was a message the mayor has sent before, amid an ongoing federal civil rights trial over stop-and-frisk and City Council hearings to set new rules for the tactic.
Attorneys suing the city cited a New York Police Department memo and said the NYPD had changed how officers document stop-and-frisk encounters, requiring them to describe in writing what prompts them to initiate the contact with the people they stop.
"If New York has any sense, it will use this ruling as an opportunity to start a wholesale reform of stop and frisk, " Mr. Dunn said.
U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, who has said in earlier rulings that she is deeply concerned about stop and frisk, is not being asked to ban the tactic, since it has been found to be legal.
The two other stop-and-frisk-related cases in front of Judge Scheindlin are a lawsuit over trespassing in public housing projects and a class-action suit challenging the constitutionality of the broader stop-and-frisk practice, which is slated to go to trial in March.
The plaintiffs in the stop-and-frisk suit have demanded such an overseer to watch the police.
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Boston used to have an equally unpopular stop-and-frisk policy, but by 1989 it had got out of hand.
So apart from stop-and-frisk, what are the other secrets to anticrime success?
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The trial in Manhattan is seeking to reform the practice of stop, question and frisk, a contentious law enforcement tactic, and lawyers for the plaintiffs are seeking a court-appointment monitor to oversee the changes.
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