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17 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 551 (1983-1984)
The Fourth Amendment and the Control of Police Discretion

handle is hein.journals/umijlr17 and id is 561 raw text is: THE FOURTH AMENDMENT AND THE CONTROL OF POLICE DISCRETION by William J. Mertens* I. Introduction ................................. 552 A. Interest balancing v. discretion control 552 B. Delaware v. Prouse ....................... 553 II. Discretion Control in the Fourth Amendment's Background .................................. 558 III. Contemporary Treatment of Police Discretion ... 561 IV. The Reasons to Regulate Police Discretion ...... 564 V. Police Discretion and Police Patrol Practices .... 567 A. Pre-Terry v. Ohio Supreme Court law ..... 567 B. Antecedents to the modern stop-and-frisk 569 C. Modern police theory, the field interrogation, and the aggressive preventive patrol . .... 569 1. In police theory ...................... 569 2. In practice ........................... 571 3. The Crime Commission's recommendations 573 D. Terry and Sibron ......................... 574 1. Background .......................... 574 2. Terry v. Ohio ........................ 577 3. Sibron v. New York .................. 591 VI. Post-Terry Elaboration ........................ 594 A. Structuring-or loosening-discretion: Brown and Cortez .............................. 594 B. Confining-or expanding-discretion: the balancing test v. probable cause ............. 597 1. Dunaway v. New York ................ 597 2. Michigan v. Summers ................. 600 3. Florida v. Royer ...................... 604 4. United States v. Place ................. 608 VII. Conclusions .................................. 614 A. Terry's unsolved problems and the later case law 614 * Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma College of Law. B.A., 1970 Yale University; J.D., 1975, Georgetown University Law Center.

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