will the 'stop and frisk' practices of the NYPD be the downfall of bloomberg's legacy?
via the heraldrecord: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a new kind of crime statistic. It is not the astoundingly low number of murders committed in his fair city, 471 in 2009 vs. about 2,000 per year in the 1980s. But it is the number of times last year the police stopped someone on the street and frisked him (or the occasional her) for weapons: 685,724. In 2002, the figure was 97,296.