NEW YORK — A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who roam a particular street. These and hundreds of thousands of other Americans in big cities have been stopped on the street by police using a law-enforcement practice called stop-and-frisk that alarms civil libertarians but is credited by authorities with helping reduce crime.
Police in major U.S. cities stop and question more than a million people each year — a sharply higher number than just a few years ago. Most are black and Hispanic men. Many are frisked, and nearly all are innocent of any crime, according to figures gathered by The Associated Press.
And the numbers are rising at the same time crime rates are dropping.
Does anyone know? If you are stopped by the police randomly, on the street in Canada, what are your rights? Do you have to answer questions? Do you have to provide identification? Tom
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as far as i know you have to provide identification as well as your name and where you live. this article reminds me of the TAVIS police practices that we have here in Toronto, operating in areas like Jane/Finch.
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