People v. Bronk

In Terry v. Ohio (392 U. S. 1, 19), it was stated that it is necessary to balance the need for a search against the invasion which a search entails and, therefore, 1 ‘ the central inquiry under the Fourth Amendment [is] the reasonableness in all the circumstances of the particular governmental invasion of a citizen’s personal security ”.

The Stop and Frisk Law (Code Crim. Pro., § 180-a) broadened the scope of a reasonable search to provide that a police officer may stop for questioning any person in a public place, whom he reasonably suspects is committing a crime and, if he reasonably…