Hey, super podcast fans. It's yardly. I just wanted to pop in with a quick announcement

about Small Town Dix season 12. It drops on April 21st. April 21st, Mark your calendars.

We will see you there.

And police stations across the country. Officers start their shifts in the briefing room.

It's a place where law enforcement can speak openly and candidly about safety, training,

policy, crime trends, and more. We think it's time to invite you in, so pull up a chair.

Welcome to the briefing room.

On this week's episode of the briefing room, we're talking about case law, Terry versus

Ohio, a landmark decision that laid the foundation and boundaries for police officer's ability

to detain and perform curse researches of citizens. We'll get into the background of

Terry versus Ohio and we'll discuss the relevance of the decision and how it applies to the streets

today.

So it's a case that occurred in Cleveland, Ohio back in 1963. It was heard by the Supreme

Court in 1967. So you see kind of the delay in that finally making it through all the

appeals to finally make it to the US Supreme Court. But the basic gist of it is what people

refer to as stop and frisk. And there's all kinds of discussions about stop and frisk

and whether or not it's constitutional, whether it's applied evenly, those kinds of things.

But a lot of situations that police encounter amount to a Terry stop, we call them Terry

stops.

One of the reasons we wanted to talk about this issue is to clarify what is legal under

case law and what isn't rent. So in this case in Cleveland, we have a plain closed officer

who his detail is working a foot beat. He walks around downtown in Cleveland and he

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