Example Sentences

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Team members, wearing modified uniforms and driving unmarked cars, conduct stops, frisks and searches in their assigned neighborhoods.

From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2023

The landmark case found that the Fourth Amendment is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks them without probable cause.

From Fox News • Feb. 11, 2020

Near the height of the stop-and-frisk strategy, in 2012, the 40th Precinct had the third-most stops in the city, the second-most stops in which officers used force and the most frisks.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2016

Later, a masked agent frisks the same suspect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 19, 2015

During the exit frisks, we’d find waffles stuffed inside pants and shirts.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover