Sentence examples for majority of stops from inspiring English sources

The vast majority of stops are for a wide variety of things.

"The vast majority of stops are the result of a police officer spontaneously stopping someone because of something they claim to have observed on the street," he said.

The package of reforms proposed by May now includes: A revised code of practice making clear what constitutes "reasonable grounds for suspicion" under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, which covers the vast majority of stops carried out.

One is that the overwhelming majority of stops result in no arrests, or even citations.

Such instances make up the vast majority of stop-searches in Scotland.

The vast majority of stop-and-frisks – 90%, in the first quarter of 2012 – do not uncover evidence of a crime.

The previously growing numbers of street stops — only 60,260 were recorded in the third quarter of 2004, for example — have been criticized by civil rights groups, as well as by some City Council members and minority community leaders, who point out that the overwhelming majority of the stops do not result in the discovery of any wrongdoing on the part of the person stopped.

The overwhelming majority of the stops yield no law-enforcement benefit whatsoever.

A vast majority of those stops resulted in no further action; 89 percent of individuals left without arrests or summons.

Bouie points to an analysis of police data showing that the vast majority of police stops target the city's black population.

The civil liberties group called the program "troubling," noting that in the first quarter of the year, a majority of the stops, or more than 144,000, were of blacks and Latinos.