Seems there was this big hoopla on the TV news today
about mayor Bloomberg apologizing for being pro
'stop and frisk' once upon a time . . . Saying it
did no good.
So I went looking . . . and, surprise surprise, back
around 2012 the new york slimes said stop and frisk
worked real good to reduce crime.
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Stop and Frisk Has Lowered Crime in Other Cities
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/07/17/does-stop-and-frisk-reduce-crime/stop-and-frisk-has-lowered-crime-in-other-cities
My own research and a growing body of police studies show that stopping and questioning is an effective crime deterrent.
In 1990, New York had 527,257 victims of “serious crimes.” In 2011, there were 106,064. Murders dropped in that period from 2,262 to 504.
Research has converged on the conclusion that a shift from reactive to proactive policing by the N.Y.P.D. has played the crucial role in what the criminologist Franklin Zimring called a “Guinness Book of World Records crime drop.” Starting with community policing under Mayor David Dinkins, and greatly intensifying under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani with the Compstat system’s intensive monitoring of crime, the city flouted the leading theory that police cannot reduce crime but can only respond to it.
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(Article does continue. Zim.)
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