Sentence examples for frisk from from inspiring English sources

At an unrelated press conference, Bloomberg once again defended stop and frisk from criticism.

For instance, all blacks, particularly "ghetto-looking" young men, are at risk of enduring yet another "stop and frisk" from the police as well as discrimination from potential employers shopkeepers, and strangers on the street.

Even Mr. James, 37, said he was frisked from time to time, although just for show, "If there's a crowd outside".

The reports showed a fivefold increase in the number of stop-and-frisks from 2002 to last year, with more than half of them involving black residents.

Of the 547,572 total black and white people stopped and frisked from Jan . 1 2006, to Sept. 30, 2007, by the New York Police Department, 486,395 were never charged with anything.

Montaigne's thought processes and his shifting attitudes to his sources, his sudden frisks from what he has experienced to what he has read and back again, these are what the Essays are.

When Anastas describes himself leaning against a church door, "arms spread like I was being frisked from behind, head bowed and murmuring pleas for help to a divine power I wasn't even sure that I believed in," one starts to feel that self-analysis has been supplanted by mawkish exhibitionism.

What would it mean if police departments approached stop-and-frisk from the standpoint of building community trust, not busting it?

He was frisked from top to bottom.

According to the report, 0.1% of 2.4 million stops and frisks from 2009 to 2012 led to convictions for violent crime.

You know on sight that the frisking from the doorman is as close to a sexual encounter as you're going to experience.