Literature Review On Stop And Frisk

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Literature Review The stop and frisk program is a concept that has been employed in the New York City for some few decades not. The program was conceptualized after a careful consideration of the crime rates increasing in the city. As such its core function has been to promote a crime-free society within and in the city. However, the program has had mixed feeling from various stakeholders especially the civilians who have filed complaints with Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) against NYPD police officers. The core or primary reason for instituting the stop-frisk program was to keep the city crime free. David Weisburd, Cody W. Telep & Brian A. Lawton (2014) embarked on a study to ascertain if the reduced crime rates in the city of New York was as a result of NYPD innovations. The innovation under study or the interest was the NYPD stop and frisk …show more content…

The police initiated 49% of these incidents. In this report by Langton & Durose, 2013, 25% of those who were stopped on the street, indicated that the behavior of the police was inappropriate. The report also brought out the fact that the percentage of people who file a complaint if they feel the police have not behaved properly was less than 5%. The report also examines the racial disparity in the number of drivers stopped by traffic. It was discovered that there were 13% more black drivers stopped that their white counterparts. Concerning the public’s perception of the behavior of the police during the stop and frisk incidences more blacks than whites reported that the officers displayed inappropriate behavior. Most of the drivers stopped by an officer of a different race believed that the search was illegitimate. The authors of the report also discovered that the rate of ticketing was higher in black drivers compared to the

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