frisk

As the officers patted down Flores, the lights on the Nissan blinked — which they assumed was because their frisk had pushed a key fob in Flores’ possession.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024

White was with the unit because she could do things — such as frisk women wearing burqas — that men couldn’t.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023

He began his career as a lawyer before being elected to the New York state legislature, where he championed affordable housing and worked on policing issues, notably the controversial practice known as "stop and frisk."

From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2022

The municipality designated the area as a security risk region, giving police the authority to frisk people preventatively.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2022

The frisk of our second cell, which belonged to a skinny, middle-aged man, was also uneventful.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Courts should use a similar jury instruction to encourage the police, whenever practicable, to record stops, frisks, and other encounters with civilians and to inform juries that accounts of nonrecorded encounters are less reliable.

From Slate ● Mar. 18, 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

Police stopped, questioned and frisked those suspected of carrying weapons or casing a business, dissuading the ill-intentioned from packing guns while reducing shootings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The two officers checked De Zoysa's bag, his waistband and frisked his legs, but somehow they missed the gun in the holster under his arm.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2023

Altheimer, who was frisked and detained, but not arrested, has said he feared for his life that night and expressed anger at Troyer following him and falsely accusing him of threats.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

In Albany, he teamed up with Eric Adams, the future mayor of New York City, to ban the Police Department from maintaining a database of men its officers had stopped and frisked.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

Seabiscuit, bandaged to the elbows, frisked them from over his stall door.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Nervous students were met with biometric identification checks, metal detectors, armoured patrols and frisking at exam centres on Sunday morning.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

The match has been designated a "high-risk" clash, with police enforcing special rules such as preventative frisking.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025

The TV audience’s response to the bit — which carried on into frisking presenters Josh Brolin and Jason Momoa per the Academy’s “protocol” — was mixed on Twitter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2022

“There is random frisking and searching taking place everywhere — without prior information they come, they raid,” said K. Elu Ndang, the general secretary of a body of local tribal groups in Nagaland.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

The walls bore the same ornamental plates, each featuring a highly colored, beribboned kitten, gamboling and frisking with sickening cuteness.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling