stop-and-search

== English == === Alternative forms === stop-and-frisk, stop and search === Adjective === stop-and-search (law, law enforcement) Of or pertaining to laws or policing practices, found in some jurisdictions, which permit a law enforcement officer to temporarily detain and search a member of the public based on the officer's suspicions. === Noun === stop-and-search (plural stops-and-searches or stop-and-searches) A police action of this type. 1996 April 5, "The Baer Truth: It Was A Shameless Judicial Cave-in, New York Daily News (retrieved 20 August 2013): Read literally, he simply ruled that a cop made a bad collar, a stop-and-search without "reasonable suspicion." === See also === racial profiling sus law