The warrants The Post identified began with arrests made during traffic stops or street encounters where officers observed suspicious behavior.
Fortress Investment Group, a New York hedge fund, also issued a statement on Friday noting: "While visiting Ontario Teachers' offices on Tuesday afternoon, a Fortress employee observed suspicious behavior by an individual and immediately alerted Ontario Teachers' staff".
"There's more police assigned to a place like East New York than, say, a precinct in Riverdale," said the Police Department spokesman, Paul J. Browne, "so the police are going to be in a position to observe suspicious behavior more frequently".
The concept of reasonable suspicion as justification for a stop and frisk, as opposed to the probable cause that the police need for a formal search, comes from a 1968 Supreme Court decision, Terry v. Ohio, which permitted police officers who observe suspicious behavior to conduct, for their own protection, a limited pat-down search for weapons.
And he laid out the logic of the stops: More police are sent to higher crime areas, where criminals and victims live; more suspicious activity is associated with that crime, so there are more opportunities for officers to observe suspicious behavior as a result.
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"We always ask our students and staff to immediately report if they observe any suspicious items or if they observe any suspicious behavior.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly attributed the increase in stops to officers' observing more suspicious behavior.
Still, Officer Noboa said he tried not to jump to conclusions when observing seemingly suspicious behavior, often pausing before moving in to stop someone.
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Their job is simply to observe suspicious activity and report it to the police.
