The Marshall Project: How a 1963 Cleveland Case Shaped Stop-and-Frisk Police Tactics, and Why It Still Matters

The Marshall Project: How a 1963 Cleveland Case Shaped Stop-and-Frisk Police Tactics, and Why It Still Matters by Brittany Hailer and Rachel Dissell, data analysis by Doug Livingston. In § 21.04 of the Treatise there’s a discussion of the history of Terry and the actual stop in Cleveland. It all happened October 31, 1963 and the motion to suppress was denied September 22, 1964.

When I did a CLE in Cleveland about 20 years ago, the Federal Defender took me to the scene of the search and arrest. There’s an historical plaque across the street from the store where officer McFaddin was standing, watching John Terry, Richard Chilton, and Carl Katz apparently casing the jewelry store for a daytime heist. It’s important local history:

There’s one online. And here’s Officer McFaddin’s official CPD photo.

As Terry notes, he was an officer for 39 years, a detective for 35.