frisk
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According to the lawsuit, Lindquist told Chaney, “I’m going to frisk you because you look like you have a weapon and were going to break into cars.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 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
“He even wrote his final research paper examining the effectiveness of proactive and reactive policing in reducing crime, discussing the effects of stop and frisk, and community policing in New York City,” she said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
“Not in a moving vehicle,” the soldier says as he begins to frisk us.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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In one police precinct, Denerstein said, only 41 percent of stops, 32 percent of frisks and 26 percent of searches were lawful.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
The trend was also true for stops that led to subsequent police actions like frisks, searches and arrests.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2020
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
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
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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 luggage is scanned and people are sometimes frisked before accessing the boarding lounge.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
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
Pownall also pulled into the lot, and when he frisked Jones, he said he felt a gun.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
At the door a deputy actually frisked me, like you see on TV.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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Nearly 39,000 frisking staff had been employed across the country to check for any prohibited items, the NTA said, and there would be 40-50 security personnel stationed at every exam centre.
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
“So frisking language might be like, ‘Do you have any needles that might hurt me?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
“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
And hundreds of Cloud-Men’s children were frisking about all over the place and shrieking with laughter and sliding down the billows of the cloud on toboggans.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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