Sentences with phrase «sometimes frisking»

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has embarked on an expedition to review the Police Department's program of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people who seem criminally inclined.

The NYPD has said that its surveillance is legal and that stop and frisk — a technique of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people who are seen as acting suspiciously but who don't necessarily meet the probable - cause standard for arrest — has helped drive crime down to record lows and save lives by taking weapons off the street.

But it came at a time of heightened tension over the Police Department's tactic of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people in minority neighborhoods of the city.

Not exact matches

In stop - and - frisks, officers approach, question and sometimes pat down people police say were behaving suspiciously — acting like a lookout or carrying a pry bar, for example — but weren't necessarily sought in any particular crime.

Like its great rival, Activision, EA is sometimes seen as a soulless corporate monolith, interested only in frisking players for as much cash as possible.

Reflective of the tensions involved are the practical and constitutional arguments pressed with great vigor on both sides of the public debate over the power of the police to «stop and frisk» — as it is sometimes euphemistically termed — suspicious persons.