Tag: Stop and Frisk

Generalized Stop and Frisk is Not the Answer: Improved Strategies for Violent Street Crime Reduction – National Policing Institute

A recent article on stops and searches by the Metropolitan Police in London has reignited debate about the use of stop, question, and frisk (SQF) in the United States. Piquero and Sherman (2025)1 analyzed 15 years of stop and search data from the Metropolitan Police and found a correlation between increases and decreases in stop and search encounters (SSE) and subsequent rates of serious injuries and homicides in London, primarily from knife attacks. In short, knife-related assaults and deaths went down when British police stopped and searched more people in public, and they went up when police stopped and searched fewer people. What do these findings mean for U.S. law enforcement? Should police in America stop and frisk more people as a strategy to reduce violent street crime, crimes that in the U.S. usually involve guns rather than knives?
— Read on www.policinginstitute.org/onpolicing/stop-and-frisk-alternatives-violent-crime-reduction/

Wasted Resources: The failures of stop-and-frisk in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA – The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has released Wasted Resources: The failures of stop-and-frisk in Philadelphia, a policy paper examining the illegal use of stop-and-frisk in Philadelphia over the past 15 years. 

Nearly 15 years after the ACLU of Pennsylvania, a professor from Penn Law School, and the law firm Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin LLP filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia over its police department’s illegal and racist use of stop-and-frisk, the police tactic remains an area of great concern for civil libertarians. 

In 2011, the city and the plaintiffs reached an agreement in Bailey v. City of Philadelphia that resulted in a consent decree that included an independent monitor of the city’s stop-and-frisk data. Last year, the Bailey consent decree led to a citywide program that deprioritized the use of stop-and-frisk for minor offenses. The ACLU of Pennsylvania and other criminal legal reform advocates consider this program a success. 

“What this policy paper tells us is that stop-and-frisk has historically not offered a meaningful solution to violent crime,” said Mary Catherine Roper, civil rights attorney at Langer Grogan & Diver P.C. and former deputy legal director at the ACLU of Pennsylvania. “It also shows that stop-and-frisk has always been associated with racial disparities and racial targeting. There should be no discussion about increasing the use of this tactic until the Philadelphia police show that they can use it both legally and equitably. We urge city leadership to stop invoking this failed police tactic that impacts Black and brown Philadelphians as a political football.”

www.aclupa.org/sites/default/files/bailey_policy_paper.pdf

Lawful Stop-And-Frisk in Philadelphia | DCReport.org

Cherelle Parker advocated for stop-and-frisk. Experts provide evidence-based suggestions to implement it into Philadelphia and beyond safely.

Make sure to checkout the many links in the article. Helpful resources.
— Read on www.dcreport.org/2023/12/14/a-road-map-for-the-lawful-use-of-stop-and-frisk-in-philadelphia-and-elsewhere/

Breaking down Washington police reform from this year and last | Issaquah Reporter

This is an interesting article than lists the State of Washington legislative bills and explains the law and its reform impact on policing.

Legislators passed a number of bills responding to concerns around policing. Let’s dig into them.
— Read on www.issaquahreporter.com/news/breaking-down-washington-police-reform-from-this-year-and-last/