People v. Smith

*174The totality of the circumstances provided a proper basis for the forcible stop and detention of defendant (People v Polanco, 174 AD2d 468, 469). A police officer saw an unidentified citizen chasing after defendant and was told by the pursuer that the man had just perpetrated a robbery (People v Fernandez, 182 AD2d 431, 432, lv denied 79 NY2d 1049). Defendant’s continued flight from other officers, who had been alerted by the first officer and who were pursuing defendant in a van, and their observation that defendant had discarded his outer shirt along the way, clearly provided police with…