Comments on: “We Were Wrong about Stop-and-Frisk” https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/01/wrong-stop-frisk/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 06 Jan 2018 04:11:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: DensityDuck https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/01/wrong-stop-frisk/comment-page-1/#comment-347667 Sat, 06 Jan 2018 04:11:02 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=68152#comment-347667 the other thing that happened since the end of stop-and-frisk was that rents in NYC went through the damn roof

there wasn’t some magic No Harassment No Crime thing, it’s just that all the people disposed toward committing crimes couldn’t afford to live there anymore

Baltimore and San Jose also got rid of all their police enforcement around the same time and they’re crimeholes now

]]> By: spo https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/01/wrong-stop-frisk/comment-page-1/#comment-347661 Fri, 05 Jan 2018 16:56:31 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=68152#comment-347661 Of course, NYC is somewhat of a unique situation as other trends are pushing crime downwards.

The stop-and-frisk policy, almost by definition, was lawful. The problem, of course, was that in its implementation, it crossed lines (which is to be expected given the sheer volume of police and people in the city), and some of the defenses to the numbers were problematic to say the least.

The issue is whether lawful policing was inhibited which resulted in crimes that did not have to happen. A falling crime rate does not mean that there wasn’t criminal activity that should not have happened.

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