{"id":31149,"date":"2018-01-04T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31149"},"modified":"2018-01-03T18:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T23:06:34","slug":"national-review-opinion-we-were-wrong-about-stop-and-frisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31149","title":{"rendered":"National Review: Opinion: We Were Wrong about Stop-and-Frisk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Review: Opinion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/455035\/new-york-city-stop-and-frisk-crime-decline-conservatives-wrong?utm_campaign=trueanthem&#038;utm_content=5a4b209604d3011fb0e179b3&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter\">We Were Wrong about Stop-and-Frisk<\/a> by Kyle Smith:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like many conservatives, I had grave concerns about curtailing the New York City police department&#8217;s controversial tactic of stopping and frisking potential suspects for weapons. I was inclined to defer to the police when they protested that they needed the option to stop, question, and frisk New Yorkers on a mere reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing instead of probable cause that the targeted person had committed a crime. Restricting the tactic, I thought, would cause an uptick, maybe even a spike, in crime rates. Mayor Bill de Blasio, who made ending stop-and-frisk the centerpiece of his successful 2013 campaign for mayor, struck me as a man who was cynically willing to tolerate an increase in crime if he thought it to his political advantage to amplify leftist voters&#8217; core belief that policing was out of control. Today in New York City, use of stop-and-frisk, which the department justified via the 1968 Terry v. Ohio Supreme Court ruling, has crashed. Yet the statistics are clear: Crime is lower than ever. It&#8217;s possible that crime would be even lower had stop-and-frisk been retained, but that&#8217;s moving the goalposts. I and others argued that crime would rise. Instead, it fell. We were wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Review: Opinion: We Were Wrong about Stop-and-Frisk by Kyle Smith:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stop-and-frisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31150,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31149\/revisions\/31150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}