topping 2,000 aer year.
then rudy giuliani took
over and new policing
strategy was put in place
under police commissioner
bill bratton.
essentially the cops
flooded the high crime
zones, arresting known
thugs for just about
anything.
the plan worked.
last year there were just
419 murders in new york.
a city of more than
8 million people.
one of the tactics police
used to discourage thugs
from carrying illegal guns
is stop and frisk.
whereby officers search
people they believe may be
loitering or look
suspicious.
most of those frisks are
minorities.
and that is causing deep
anger.
>> you can't give people
authority where there
civilian or police officer
the right to just stop
somebody because of the
color of their skin.
>> bill: that was trayvon
martin's mother.
a federal judge agrees with
her.
ruling that the nypd must
modify its stop and frisk
program.
liberals are overjoyed but
not so fast.
the unintended consequence
of a slowdown in stop and
frisk could be death the