With gun violence soaring, some Philadelphia City Councilmembers say stop-and-frisk merits another look. Mayor Jim Kenney says he is “not willing to bring that back.'
at an Independence Day celebration, leaders in Philadelphia’s City Council this week said it was time to reexamine the controversial police tactic known as stop-and-frisk.
— drew a chilly reception from Mayor Jim Kenney, who ran for office on a pledge to end illegal police stops. Such a conversation would surely be fraught with questions about how Philadelphia police interact with citizens and suspects,And it would come amid a long-running debate over what some experts say is a general rollback in policing after the furor and protests that erupted across the country after the police murder of George Floyd — a response they cite as a key factor driving the national surge in violent crime.
“We’ve been on the right track in terms of limiting unnecessary interactions with police,” she said. “Going back to a place where we have aggressive stop-and-frisk is in direct conflict with the trust that we say we want to build with the community.” Shortly before Bloomberg’s unsuccessful 2020 presidential run, he apologized for supporting the tactic.In Philadelphia a decade ago, then-Mayor Michael Nutter also promoted the technique. And its use — combined with other law enforcement strategies — coincided with the city’s lowest murder rate in 50 years. At its peak during Nutter’s last year in office in 2015, police made 820,000 stops — 375,000 of pedestrians and 445,000 of cars.
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