Heather MacDonald on DeBlasio and his new Police Chief: Bratton may (come to) regret his stance. No police chief can fight crime without generating the racially disparate enforcement statistics that lie at the heart of Scheindlin’s newly justified ruling. It will take some time for New York’s criminals to conclude that their stop risk has really and truly dropped, thanks to the implementation of Scheindlin’s opinion. But when they do figure that out, Bratton’s most potent weapon against the inevitable rise in lawlessness will be the proactive stops that he now implies are unlawful.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:59:29 +0000
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