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“We have a law that’s used for something akin to stop and frisk and punishes people for living in areas without safe infrastructure,” said Hester Serebrin, policy director for the Transportation Choices Coalition.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

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

Over the last eight years, he succeeded on key priorities like creating universal prekindergarten, embracing police reforms like body cameras and continuing to reduce stop and frisk incidents, and building affordable housing.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

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

Later, a masked agent frisks the same suspect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2015

A guard frisks each man before they enter the first in a series of locked doors that will take them to the lower yard.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 11, 2015

In short, police are actually more proactive when wearing cameras, without increasing their use of invasive strategies that threatened the legitimacy of the organization, such as unjustified stop and frisks and misdemeanor arrests.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2014

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

As the lights came up, an old man dozed while a teenage boy and girl frisked nearby in an unconvincing body of water.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

Around 7:22 p.m., when an officer observed a bulge on Alberts’ right hip, police frisked Alberts, seized his loaded firearm and arrested him.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

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

The graceful creature paid no attention to the wolves, but frisked gaily at the old man’s side.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

He cleaned his antennae with his forefeet, frisking and smoothing them so that he looked like a Victorian villain twirling his moustachios.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White