e experienced an economic-revival because of the new order that has been established by the police (Puddington 9). If the police decrease their assertive tactics, criminals will seize these minority neighborhoods again. Ironically, it is the minority neighborhoods that will suffer the most (Puddington 10).
While liberals claim that racial profiling has increased unnecessary police abuse against individuals from minority neighborhoods, the 1998 statistics reveals that crimes involving police and civilians decreased (Puddington 4) and the number of fatal police shootings was reduced from 30 to 19 -รน the second lowest since 1973 (O'Sullivan 34).
Against incriminating statistics that police unfairly target minorities is the reality that most of the criminals come from minority neighborhoods and communities. One of the statistics cited by the liberals is the 1998 statistic stating that 83 percent of the 27,000 "stop and frisk" inciden
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