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'Stop-and-frisk' can work, under careful supervision

  • Written by Henry F. Fradella, Professor and Associate Director, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University
A 2012 training session between two New York police officers demonstrated a way stop-and-frisk encounters could be handled.AP Photo/Colleen Long

In mid-November, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized publicly for his backing of a practice intended to reduce violent crime that had for years been criticized as racially biased....

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