Word: frisk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major airports around the U.S., ground crews smile apologetically as they ransack women's handbags, flip through businessmen's briefcases, tear open wrapped packages and even frisk some passengers for firearms, knives or other weapons that could be used to hijack a plane. For the passengers, these security spot checks are a brief, unaccustomed annoyance; for the airlines, they are a financial drag. Both the annoyance and the burden will climb sharply next week, as tough new federal regulations designed to guard against skyjacking take hold...
...given immunity only from prosecution based on what he says or evidence developed from it; the majority asserted that prosecutors would not be able to misuse such leads to find other evidence to convict the witness. The court also upheld a policeman's right to stop and frisk a suspect even if the officer's suspicions are based on the word of an unnamed tipster. When the court did find that officials had overreached their authority, however, it proved ready to slap them down, thus the Justices ruled unanimously that it is unconstitutional to eavesdrop on domestic political...
...Four years ago the Warren Court ruled, in Terry v. Ohio, that a policeman investigating suspicious behavior may "stop and frisk" a person for weapons when he "is justified in believing the individual is armed and presently dangerous." The policeman's personal observation was thus a key justification for such a search. But Justice Rehnquist, again writing for the 6 to 3 majority, ruled that a "stop and frisk" action was also justified when a Connecticut policeman learned from an informant that a man sitting in a car at 2:15 a.m. in a high crime area was carrying...
...handbook is divided into sections on rules and procedures which discuss guidelines for handling "difficult" cases such as stop-and-frisk, juvenile arrests, and "service" calls. Reagan said...
...many critics to warn that the country faced an era of repression. "I am first and foremost a law-enforcement officer," said Attorney General John Mitchell in 1969. "Law-and-order" often did seem to take precedence over social reform. The Administration pushed such police tactics as stop-and-frisk, no-knock and preventive detention, and stressed the need to liberate the nation's cops from the shackles of liberal Supreme Court decisions that protected the rights of criminal defendants...