[8] Davis's family began negotiating with police, motivated by concerns about his safety; local drug dealers were making death threats because the police
dragnet seeking Davis had disrupted their business.
Fortunately there is enough evidence out there that suggests where police authorities have abandoned their racial
dragnet approach and focused more on intelligence - led policing, three aspects not so miraculously happen: disproportionate stop and search figures go down, crime detection goes up and community relations between the police and those they
seek to serve dramatically improve.