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This chapter highlights key events and court cases that set the legal stage for the stop-and-frisk as we know it today. Although this was a supplemental action, NYPD turned it into a proactive tool for constant use in the fight against crime in the 1990s New York City—which was riddled with crime. With the drop in crime by 2002, the aggressive tactics were still being applied on a large scale, but with meager results as seen in the Brownsville case which led to the question of the true reason for the continued stop-and-frisk tactic. Some believe it was racism, others believe it was quotas—but to what end?
One of the things I’d do … is I would do stop-and-frisk. I think you have to. We did it in New York and it worked incredibly well and you have to be proactive.
Donald Trump , 2016 Presidential Race.
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Newberry, J. (2017). In the Shadow of Lady Liberty. In: Racial Profiling and the NYPD. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58091-3_2
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