In a seeming disconnect during his courting of black voters, Trump called for the broad use of the contentious stop - and -
frisk policing strategy in America's cities, embracing an aggressive tactic whose legality has been challenged and whose enforcement has been abandoned in New York.
Not exact matches
But the former NYPD official — who was also critical of the Bloomberg and Ray Kelly era of aggressive
policing that led to a 600 percent jump in stop - and -
frisks and about 400,000 arrests a year — was skeptical of de Blasio's new
strategy.
Mayor Bloomberg fired a new salvo in his war against a City Council measure to rein in stop - and -
frisk, charging the anti-racial-profiling legislation would actually end the successful
policing strategy and aid dangerous criminals.
«Intro 800 [the bill] would authorize new lawsuits that could result in a blanket prohibition against the use of stop, question and
frisk in New York City — and potentially many other
strategies and tactics used by the
police to address and prevent crime,» Best wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.
But now as Quinn runs to replace him, Bloomberg is blasting her for backing an inspector general to watch over the NYPD and review aggressive
police strategies such as stop, question and
frisk.