People v. Boswell

The issue raised on this appeal is whether a suspicionless stop of an occupied cab by officers in an unmarked police vehicle under the circumstances of this case was constitutionally permissible and valid.

*177Police Officer Ray Winslow, a member of the Street Crime Unit of the New York City Police Department, testified that he was working the 5:30 p.m. to 2:05 a.m. tour on February 27, 1995, and was assigned to the Taxi Livery Task Force in the 44th/46th Precinct. He explained that the Task Force is sent out to precincts with a high number of cab robberies, where its duties are to set up taxi…