<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Terry v. Ohio </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Terry v. Ohio </Td> </Tr> <P> Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks him or her without probable cause to arrest, if the police officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime and has a reasonable belief that the person "may be armed and presently dangerous ." </P> <P> For their own protection, after a person has been stopped, police may perform a quick surface search of the person's outer clothing for weapons if they have reasonable suspicion that the person stopped is armed . This reasonable suspicion must be based on "specific and articulable facts" and not merely upon an officer's hunch . This permitted police action has subsequently been referred to in short as a "stop and frisk," or simply a "Terry frisk". The Terry standard was later extended to temporary detentions of persons in vehicles, known as traffic stops; see Terry stop for a summary of subsequent jurisprudence . </P>

The case that established the foundation for stop and frisk is