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Similar to the New York Police Department's scandal, the Baltimore Police Department is having its own "stop and frisk" fiasco.
In an effort to diminish its controversy, Baltimore city police are doing away with use of the negative term "stop and frisk" and replacing it with the word "stop". However, Baltimore's "stop and frisk" program continues unabated.
"Stop and frisk", now "stop" or "investigative stop" in Baltimore, is a term used when police detain someone short of arrest and search them allegedly on "reasonable suspicion" that the person is armed and "presently dangerous". It is also known as a "Terry stop", referring to the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S. Ct. 1868, 20 L. Ed. 2d889, that held that such searches were not a violation of the 4th Amendment.
[http://articles.baltimoresun.com/09-23-2013; www.the-atlanticcities.com/politics/09-2013; law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment].
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