To conduct a Terry stop based on anonymous tips, the information must be what?

To conduct a Terry stop based on anonymous tips, the information must be what?

• A. An eyewitness statement
• B. Sufficient, predictable, information and corroborate it and believe the person is armed
• C. A police officer's personal hunch
• D. A written complaint from a citizen

Answer: (B)

The key idea is that a Terry stop based on an anonymous tip only works if the tip provides information that is sufficiently reliable and specific, and the officer’s own observations corroborate it. When a tip describes concrete, checkable details and the officers can verify those details through their patrol observations, the situation rises from a mere guess to reasonable suspicion that justifies an briefly detention to investigate. If the tip also notes that the person might be armed and that detail can be supported by corroborating facts (for example, the person matches the description and the location aligns with suspicious activity), that strengthens the case for the stop without needing full-blown probable cause.

So why this fits best: it captures the need for reliability, specificity, and corroboration that anonymous information must have to justify a stop. The other options don’t fit because an eyewitness statement is not anonymous, a personal hunch isn’t enough to justify a stop, and a written complaint isn’t the same as an anonymous tip that can be independently corroborated in the field.