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You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.

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Policing has to be done compassionately and consistently. You cannot police differently in Harlem than you're policing downtown. The same laws must apply. The same procedures must be employed. Certain areas at certain times may have more significant crime and require more police presence or more assertiveness, but it has to be balanced.

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Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.

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Stop-and-frisk is not something that you can stop. It is an absolutely basic tool of American policing. It would be like asking a doctor to give an examination to you without using his stethoscope.

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Cops have been complaining about morale since police forces were created. I used to complain about it a lot when I was a young cop.

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If an African-American or a recent immigrant - or anyone else, for that matter - can't feel secure walking into a police station or up to a police officer to report a crime, because of a fear that they're not going to be treated well, then everything else that we promise is on a shaky foundation.

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Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.

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Race is something that's always haunted American policing.

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I disliked everything about the '60s.

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Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: October 6th, 1947

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