Stop and search or Stop and frisk is a term used to describe the powers of the police to search a person, place or object without first making an arrest.
A 2021 survey by the
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, usually known in English as the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), is a Vienna-based agency of the European Union inaugurated on 1 March 2007. It was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 168/20 ...
found that
minority ethnic groups were disproportionately targeted across Europe, even though it is unlawful for police to stop and search someone solely on grounds of race or ethnicity.
Romani and
sub-Saharan Africans were particularly affected.
Examples in specific jurisdictions include:
* in England and Wales
* in Scotland
*
Stop and frisk, in the United States
References
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