‘Stop-and-frisk’ can work, under careful supervision
This article was originally published on Dec. 5 by The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.
In mid-November, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized publicly for his backing of a practice intended to reduce violent crime that had for years been criticized as racially biased. “I realize back then I was wrong, and I’m sorry,” he said.
But his apology, made at a predominantly black church in Brooklyn, puzzled many observers. That included scholars of criminal justice like ourselves.