The following excerpt is from People v. Amos, 9 N.Y.S.3d 594 (Table) (N.Y. Just. Ct. 2015):
... the fundamental issue of whether or not a police officer, in the absence of any concrete indication of criminality, may approach a private citizen on the street for the purpose of requesting information. We hold that he may. The basis for this inquiry need not rest on any indication of criminal activity on the part of the person of whom the inquiry is made but there must be some articulable reason sufficient to justify the police action which was undertaken. (People v. DeBour, 40 N.Y.2d 210,213, 386 N.Y.S.2d 375, 378 [1976] )
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