Stop-and-frisk has removed thousands of guns from the city’s streets — but the NYPD detained millions of innocent New Yorkers to find them
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A Columbia law professor testified Wednesday that just one gun was recovered for every thousand people stopped from 2004 through June 30, 2012.
“The NYPD hit rate is far less than what you would achieve by chance,” Jeffrey Fagan said in Manhattan Federal Court.
Thursday 4 April 2013
Stop-And-Frisk Deemed Failed Policing Policy, Though It Is A Fantastic Control Policy
Posted on 12:00 by Ashish Chaturvedi
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