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Stop and Frisk or Arrest and Search--The Use and Misuse of Euphemisms

Abstract: the program for this Conference. Professor Packer, in his presentation today, has suggested that such a conflict does not actually exist; that the recent Supreme Court decisions, particularly with regard to confessions, represent an historical trend within the Court to pay that regard to an individual's liberty which once was paid only to an individual's property;l and that those decisions, while they frequently and emotionally have been denounced as a death blow to effective law enforcement,2 will, in the long run, be no more so than was the decision to exclude confessions obtained by physical torture. My agreement upon these points is complete. Today I shall explore one proposal currently being advanced by some in our midst and which others among us abhor, but which all thoughtful citizens must concede presents a conflict between individual liberty and effective police procedures. The proposal of which I speak is that euphemistically labeled "stop and frisk". I plan first to note briefly current police practices of field interrogations and searches. Then I shall discuss the