1. Know the basis for stops and frisks in the text of the Fourth Amendment.

2. State the difference between investigative Terry stops and arrests.

3. Know the definition of reasonable suspicion and the various factors that the police consider in determining whether there is reasonable suspicion.

4. Define the circumstances under which an informant’s tip constitutes reasonable suspicion.

5. Know the role of drug courier profiles in reasonable suspicion stops.

6. Appreciate the significance of “race” in the police determinations of reasonable suspicion.

7. State when Terry stops allow the movement of suspects, the length of permissible seizures, and the allowable intrusiveness of the methods used to investigate suspected criminal activity. 

8. Know the constitutional authority of the police to require drivers as well as the passengers in a vehicle they detain on a traffic stop to exit the automobile and the circumstances under which the police may frisk the driver.

9. State the circumstances under which the police may frisk a suspect and the scope of a Terry frisk.

10. Know the justification for frisking passengers in an automobile who are not suspected of criminal activity.

11. State when the police may search the passenger compartment of an automobile.

12. Know the legal test for the seizure of narcotics in Minnesota v. Dickerson.