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.
The thing to notice here is that stop-and-frisk can liberate us from the prevailing political unrealism of the gun-control debate.
Critics of stop-and-frisk argue that it discriminates against blacks and Hispanics, who are the subjects of a majority of stops.
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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.
Mr. Kelly says that stop-and-frisk is a critical and constitutional part of this success.
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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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"Stop-and-frisk" became a central feature of policing and now, in a transformed New York two decades later, it has become a matter of controversy.
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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.
Liberals criticize stop-and-frisk because those stopped and frisked and sent to jail under New York's draconian gun enforcement are disproportionately black and Hispanic.
On one hand, he is critical of the Bloomberg administration's use of the stop-and-frisk tactic a source of anger in his base of African-American voters.
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.
Ruben Diaz used the opportunity to pledge support for the police department's stop-and-frisk policy, saying it can only serve to help get guns off the street.
"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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