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Cops and Stops: An Analysis of NYPD's Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices
This book focuses on the controversial aggressive police practices employed to control crime by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the harm that has resulted and may further be produced if not checked. Informed by the author’s personal experience as a retired NYPD Captain, as well as by his research in the field, this book explains the broad influence of stop and frisk as well as other aggressive policies. In the mid‑1990s, with the election of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a new era