The officer then performed a humiliating pat-down search that included explorations of my chest and crotch.

Then he did a quick pat-down search to look for other weapons.

The cases range from street stop-and-frisks to traffic stops in which pat-down searches could be conducted on the driver or passengers.

The officers, who noticed that the men were wearing heavy, baggy clothing on a hot day, then asked permission to conduct a pat-down search.

Governor Whitman herself has called the pat-down search "dumb," but has refused so far to apologize.

But what we're doing now, selecting people at random for pat-down searches, picking out congressmen and 80-year-old women, that's just foolishness.

The trooper then began a pat-down search of the man and felt what he suspected was a weapon under the man's pants, the captain said.

The sergeant concluded his pat-down search of the four female officers and held up four communicators.

A small amount of marijuana was discovered during a pat-down search.

An officer caught him and, in a pat-down search, felt a gun in a bag he was carrying under his arm.