Bloomberg's apology ignores the role that proactive policing played in driving down crime.
By exercising their authority to initiate contacts with citizens-in some cases, by legally detaining, questioning, and, yes, frisking those whom they reasonably believed to be involved in crimes and armed-NYPD officers significantly deterred crime in the city's most troubled precincts.
With a more "Microlevel" analysis, the 2014 study found that NYPD stops-and-frisks had significant, albeit "Modest," effects on crime.
The decline in police activity in Baltimore is well documented and coincides with a significant uptick in Charm City's violent crime.
They point to New York's continued crime decline after 2014, when NYPD officers began sharply curtailing the number of reported stops and frisks.
This argument sounds good on the surface, but it oversimplifies the situation in New York and the changes brought about in the city by the ongoing crime decline that started in the 1990s-changes that made the city less vulnerable to crime increases.
Among the causes of that dilution: the extraction of criminal actors from those neighborhoods through incarceration, the inward migration of low-crime populations from within and outside New York City, and higher educational attainment in the city's high-crime boroughs, leading to lower crime rates among younger residents.
https://www.city-journal.org/bloomberg-renounces-proactive-policing
By exercising their authority to initiate contacts with citizens-in some cases, by legally detaining, questioning, and, yes, frisking those whom they reasonably believed to be involved in crimes and armed-NYPD officers significantly deterred crime in the city's most troubled precincts.
With a more "Microlevel" analysis, the 2014 study found that NYPD stops-and-frisks had significant, albeit "Modest," effects on crime.
The decline in police activity in Baltimore is well documented and coincides with a significant uptick in Charm City's violent crime.
They point to New York's continued crime decline after 2014, when NYPD officers began sharply curtailing the number of reported stops and frisks.
This argument sounds good on the surface, but it oversimplifies the situation in New York and the changes brought about in the city by the ongoing crime decline that started in the 1990s-changes that made the city less vulnerable to crime increases.
Among the causes of that dilution: the extraction of criminal actors from those neighborhoods through incarceration, the inward migration of low-crime populations from within and outside New York City, and higher educational attainment in the city's high-crime boroughs, leading to lower crime rates among younger residents.
https://www.city-journal.org/bloomberg-renounces-proactive-policing
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