Lazy, because it became an easy stop, rather than one based on probable cause. Stop and frisk was used overwhelmingly on black and latino populations. From National Review: "Today in New York City, use of stop-and-frisk has crashed. Yet the statistics are clear: Crime is lower than ever. . . . . I and others argued that crime would rise. Instead, it fell. We were wrong.

"de Blasio was correct in saying the city could withstand a sharp decrease in stop-and-frisk. And he was right to draw attention to the social cost of the practice; more than 80 percent of those subjected to stop-and-frisk since the start of the Bloomberg administration were, according to the NYPD, completely innocent. That means hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were unjustly subjected to embarrassment or even humiliation."