PRC 241 Legal Block Practice Test

This tests knowing the term for briefly stopping someone and patting them down for weapons. The correct term is stop and frisk. It describes a two-step action: a stop based on reasonable suspicion, followed by a frisk—a quick pat-down of the outer clothing to check for weapons. It isn’t an arrest, which requires custody and probable cause; it isn’t merely detention without a frisk, and while a frisk can occur in a warrantless safety search, the established label for this practice is stop and frisk.