After the shooting, scores of police officers spilled into the neighborhood in search of a suspect, using patrol cars and helicopters.

An off-duty police officer was shot in the Bronx yesterday, and the police blanketed the area last night in search of a suspect.

Police officials are beginning to seize and analyze personal digital devices in their investigations (a warrant allowing search of a suspect's electronic devices is usually required).

Where Detective Parker was gargantuan, Detective Rafferty was wiry, daring slower officers to catch him as he flew up rooftop ladders in search of a suspect.

Critics claim that the War on Drugs has lowered the evidentiary burden required for a legal search of a suspect's dwelling or vehicle, or to intercept a suspect's communications.

Police do not need a search warrant, or even probable cause, to perform a limited search of a suspect's outer clothing for weapons, if police have a reasonable suspicion to justify the intrusion-a Terry "stop and frisk".

The federal appeals court's decision, blessing the action of Oneonta, N.Y., police officer in questioning all of its black residents in search of a suspect they could only identify by race, wounds me as a black man.

When police have probable cause to believe a crime has been committed, the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment permit the limited search of a suspect during a brief detention in a stationhouse when there exists a risk that the suspect may destroy readily destructible evidence and the scope of the search is limited to vindicating this interest.