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Originally Posted by Leo656
And a lot of THAT had a ton to do with Guliani's crackdown on gang violence and street crime, along with a parallel increase in Stop-And-Frisk, which is both a highly controversial but highly effective deterrent. Controversial because it disproportionately targets minorities, but effective because A. A huge number of people who were frisked in NYC for "being shady" turned out to be carrying - often ILLEGALLY carrying - regardless of why they were stopped, and furthermore often turned out to be violent career criminals on top of that, and B. People who would be highly likely to get frisked under those circumstances - i.e., gang members and drug dealers - either made it a point to not carry or simply did "business" elsewhere, and in either case they and their guns would no longer become a NYC-related statistic.
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Actually Stop and Frisk has been shown to be not really effective when it comes to lowing crime in fact violent crime dropped when they cease stop and frisk. //www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/12/03/new-york-has-essentially-eliminated-stop-and-frisk-and-crime-is-still-down/?utm_term=.9225166c2881