Are Murders Up in New York City? No.

“In New York City, stop-and-frisk, we had 2,200 murders, and stop-and-frisk brought it down to 500 murders”, Trump said. “I think for a lot of the American people they like the spontaneity”.

Stop-and- frisk had a tremendous impact on the safety of New York City.

Stop and Frisk has always been a controversial policing tactic and was first reviewed before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1968 in Terry v. OH where the policy passed a fourth amendment test of reasonableness.

A 2013 case before the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Floyd vs. City of New York, raised the issue of the constitutionality of New York City’s stop-and-frisk policies between 2004 and 2012.

The administration of then Mayor Michael Bloomberg appealed and the court granted a stay of her ruling as it was sent back to be tried under a new judge.

“Blacks are likely targeted for stops based on a lesser degree of objectively founded suspicion than whites,”Judge Shira A. Scheindlin wrote. I know she [Clinton] doesn’t know the law because she failed the bar exam, but he should stop pretending he’s a lawyer”, he continued”.

The number of stops in 2015 was 22,939.

So far the homicide rate for 2016 is on pace to be the lowest in city history. Bill de Blasio became mayor while the appeals process was ongoing. And irreparable damage means that the court came to the same conclusion as Mr. Trump, that stop and frisk plays a critical role in reducing crime. Teenagers were repeatedly stopped on their way back and forth from work and school. The city was unable to identify a single officer who had been received follow-up training on making legal stops, the ACLU reported. While talking about the violence in Chicago, Trump proposed the use of stop-and-frisk, a policy which allows police officers to randomly stop civilians and search them. Just 6 percent of those cases resulted in arrests and another 6 percent in summonses. Trump was right that the decision in NY was of dubious value as precedent (he didn’t use those words, of course, though he seemed to be gesturing in that direction), but was arguably wrong that stop-and-frisk had much if anything to do with crime reductions in NY – and also wrong in attributing the heavy use of the tactic to his buddy Rudy.

As the debate turned to crime, Trump repeated his three-word solution, saying: “We need law and order”. In an interview with CNN, Trump said: “Honestly, I thought he did a great job”.

The NYPD’s program, as well as that of other large cities, has its origins in a 1995 study in Kansas City directed by Lawrence Sherman, then a professor at the University of Maryland-College Park.

And this was the dilemma Trump faced as Holt accurately fact-checked his embrace of New York City’s past application of unconstitutional stop and frisk.

In reality, the city has not ended the practice. But no one wins when the police take shortcuts and perform a bad stop-and-frisk.

Ms. Clinton, the former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator from NY, has not addressed Mr. Trump’s latest salvo.

The NYPD weighed on stop-and-frisk during the debate and said stops are down 97 percent since 2011.

Excessive stop-and-frisk divides communities. “It brought the crime rate way down”.

-Officers recorded using force in 23 percent of stops of blacks, 24 percent of stops of Hispanics and 17 percent of stops of whites.