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 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
Romani may refer to:
Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
* Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
and
sub-Saharan Africans were particularly affected.
Examples in specific jurisdictions include:
* in England and Wales
* in Scotland
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Stop and frisk
A ''Terry'' stop in the United States allows the police to briefly detain a person based on reasonable suspicion of involvement in criminal activity. ("In ''Terry v. Ohio'', 392 U. S. 1, 30 (1968), we held that the police can stop and briefly de ...
, in the United States
References
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