Lawyers for New York City say stop-and-frisk has dropped steeply.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday that the drop reflects the decline in the city’s crime rate.
City lawyers cited the numbers Tuesday in a letter to a federal judge. The judge ruled this month that the NYPD violated the civil rights of minorities with the policy. She ordered an outside monitor to oversee major changes.
The city has asked the judge to hold off on implementing her ruling during the appeal.
The letter says stops for the second quarter of 2012 were nearly 134,000, compared to 58,000 for the second quarter of 2013.
(AP)
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5 Responses
Something in Mayor Blumberg’s statement (second paragraph of article) does not compute: If stop-and-frisks are down, shouldn’t crime go up, if stop-and-frisk is a crime deterrent?
I agree. Mayor Dumberg’s logic is illogical.
Actually it makes perfect sense.
According to Police Stop and frisk is targeted around areas with High Crime and is pre-ceaded by quastionable behaviour.
As such, High Crime would cause the Stats to go up, and then as crime goes down as a result of criminals being knowing if they walk around witha gun or stolen goods they have a good chance of being caught the stop and frisk actions will also go down.
Senor nfgo3. While I normally don’t agree with King Bloomberg, I think you need to re-read the article. He is stating that crime is down because of previous stop and frisk getting guns and criminals off the street. It might serve you best the sharpen those anslytical skills.
No. 4: I will work on my anslytical skills if you work on your sbelling and poof-reading.
And I re-read the article before I commented. Crime has been dropping steadily for the past 20 years – since the end of the Dinkins administration – so by that logic, stop-and-frisk should have been dropping throughout the Bloomberg administration.