The stop-and-frisk policy could be considered a major controversy that New York is facing in recent times. The whole concept behind this stop and search is that the police officer, with reasonable suspicion of some crime committed or about to be committed, stops a pedestrian, questions him, and then, if necessary, searches the person. This policy began to gain public attention in 1968 with the Terry v. Ohio. A police officer saw the three men ransacking a store and believed they were going to rob the store; this led him to stop and search them. After searching them, he found a gun and took the weapon from the men. The men then cried foul and claimed they had been targeted and searched unconstitutionally. One of the main reasons why stop-and-frisk should be abolished is in the hope of decreasing the blatant racial profiling that has gone on under the name of "stop-and-frisk." search." In 2007, 55% of people stopped in New York were black and 30% were Hispanic (“Update: Crime and Race”). When checked again in 2011, a total of 685,000 people were stopped by police , of which 52.9% were African American, 33.7% were Latino, and 9.3% were white (“racial profiling”). There is the story of an innocent victim of the stop-and-frisk policy, a man named Robert Taylor. Torrance police stopped the elderly man and said he matched the description of a suspect connected to a robbery. But there was one simple problem; Taylor is a tall, light-skinned man in his 60s and the suspect was believed to be a short, stocky man in his thirties; nothing to do with Taylor (Hutchinson) This shows that the police don't always stop people based on the right reasons, but they tend to stop people based to the color of the paper… middle of the paper… Opposing Views Rpt. from “California Police Arrest Proves Racial Profiling Is Alive and Well.” 2010. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Network. November 5, 2013.Mac Donald, Heather. “Stop Murders, Keep “Stop-and-Frisk”” City-Journal. NP, July 23, 2012. Web. Nov. 8, 2013. “Racial Profiling.” Problems and controversies. Facts On File News Services, September 3, 2012. Web. November 5, 2013."Stop and Frisk." Gale Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Donna Batten. 3rd ed. vol. 9. Detroit: Gale, 2010. 391-392. Opposing points of view in context. Network. November 5, 2013.Sullum, Jacob. “When Policing Becomes Nuisance: Why the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Program Is Unconstitutional.” Reason July 2013: 8. Opposing views in context. Network. November 5, 2013. “Update: Crime and Race.” Issues and controversies on file: n. page Problems and controversies. Facts On File News Services, May 25, 2007. Web. November 5. 2013.