But city officials, including New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, continue to defend stop-and-frisk.
The federal class-action trial of a New York City Police Department's Stop-and-Frisk policy wound down today.
The plaintiffs in the stop-and-frisk suit have demanded such an overseer to watch the police.
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Mr. Browne credited the decline in the homicide rate, in part, to the city's controversial stop-and-frisk policy.
The NYPD has said that stop-and-frisk is an integral element in the historic reduction in city crime.
And, if executed well, it moves in the exact opposite direction of stop-and-frisk and the Giuliani legacy.
Boston used to have an equally unpopular stop-and-frisk policy, but by 1989 it had got out of hand.
On Monday, closing arguments were heard in a federal court challenge to the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy.
Proposed last year, the inspector general and stop-and-frisk measures have gotten entrained in the politics of a competitive mayoral campaign.
If you're just - and if you're just joining us, we're talking about a case involving New York City's stop-and-frisk policy.
There's already a hot mayoral race, there have already been debates involving six candidates, and Stop-and-Frisk is a hot, hot topic.
Stop-and-frisk has taken center-stage in this year's race for mayor, with most Democratic candidates saying the policy needs to be changed.
NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy is extremely unpopular with minorities, who feel they often get stopped by police officers for no good reason.
So he would say they do practice a stop-and-frisk type thing here.
So communities are divided over whether they support or they oppose stop-and-frisk.
So apart from stop-and-frisk, what are the other secrets to anticrime success?
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At the same time, the ugly side of stop-and-frisk can be alleviated.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg highlighted Mr. Bryant's killing last week in a speech defending the role the NYPD's stop-and-frisk tactics play in crime fighting.
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" Those stop-and-frisk encounters were made outside private buildings in the Bronx participating in a police patrol program known as "Operation Clean Halls.
But during the mayor's third term, the NYPD's so-called stop-and-frisk tactic has become a source of intense criticism and litigation in the courts.
Zimring also touches upon the role of aggressive, stop-and-frisk policing in the violence decline, though he notes its impact is small, its costs potentially large.
"I just don't believe stop-and-frisk is an effective tactic, " he said.
If stop-and-frisk makes it to the highest court in the land, the ruling might be more than a matter of academic interest for Mr. Bratton.
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The case is one of three pending class actions challenging stop-and-frisk.
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Officers receive extensive training at the academy, a training officer is assigned to police precincts and the department has beefed up safeguards to the stop-and-frisk policy.
The inspector general would function on a macro level weighing in on policy, while the court monitor would enforce nuts-and-bolts changes related to the stop-and-frisk policy.
The value of stop-and-frisk wasn't just the arrests made and guns seized, but the incentive to New York's criminal population to leave its guns at home.
One council member, Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn, called out "not true" and "that's wrong" as the mayor defended stop-and-frisk, a move Mr. Williams later said he regretted.
It was a message the mayor has sent before, amid an ongoing federal civil rights trial over stop-and-frisk and City Council hearings to set new rules for the tactic.
Mr. Jeffries, who represents parts of Brooklyn that have some of the city's highest crime rates and the highest rates of stop-and-frisk, said he hasn't endorsed a mayoral candidate.
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