Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has apologized for the police practice of “stop and frisk,” which he supported while he was mayor of New York City – even after it was judged by a federal court to have been racially biased.

Bloomberg’s apology may have been good politics – but was it good policing? Henry Fradella and Michael D. White, criminal justice scholars at the University of Arizona, argue “stop and frisk” isn’t inherently racist and explain why and how it could be a useful, legitimate and constitutional method of fighting crime.

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A 2012 training session between two New York police officers demonstrated a way stop-and-frisk encounters could be handled. AP Photo/Colleen Long

‘Stop-and-frisk’ can work, under careful supervision

Henry F. Fradella, Arizona State University; Michael D. White, Arizona State University

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for his city's 'stop-and-frisk' police strategy. Two criminologists argue it isn't necessarily inherently racist – though New York's program was.

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