Two guys from Yale offer an alternative to stop-and-frisk
Briefing: Ray Kelly. Azi Paybarah via flickr
4:55 pm Apr. 20, 2012
When city lawmakers complained about the high number of black and Latino men being stopped and frisked by the NYPD, Commissioner Ray Kelly said he hadn't heard anyone come up with an alternative strategy for how to keep people safe.
This morning, he got one.
In an op-ed in the Times, a Yale Law professor and a third-year student described a technique called "focused deterrence" which, when applied in Boston and a city in North Carolina, worked to dramatic effect. Instead of conducting widespread stops, "police built strong relationships with residents," identified the small number of lawbreakers, and focused on them.
"The city’s most significant drug market vanished overnight, and it has not come back," professor James Forman Jr. and Trevor Stutz wrote, referring to the city of HIgh Point. "Violent crime has fallen by half."
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