As Stop-and-Frisks Have Gone Down in NYC, So Have Shootings and Murders

Andy Cush · Thursday, December 10, 2015, 1:59 pm

The idea that New York City is in the throes of a historically or even notably dangerous and criminal era is a myth fabricated largely by the knuckleheads at the New York Post . More evidence to the contrary: In the years since stop-and-frisk began its great decline, murders and shootings in the city have gone down too, not up, according to new NYCLU (New York Civil Liberties Union) analysis.

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