The Hour: ‘Stop-and-frisk’ can work, under careful supervision

The Hour: ‘Stop-and-frisk’ can work, under careful supervision by Henry F. Fradella:

(THE CONVERSATION) 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. “I realize back then I was wrong, and I’m sorry,” he said.

But his apology, made at a predominantly black church in Brooklyn, puzzled many observers. That included scholars of criminal justice likeourselves.

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