PHILADELPHIA — In response to the city's ongoing gun violence crisis and the shooting of two police officers at an Independence Day celebration, leaders in Philadelphia's City Council this week said it was time to reexamine the controversial police tactic known as stop-and-frisk.
"We have a lot of citizens in the streets of Philadelphia talking about 'When are we gonna look at stop-and-frisk in a constitutionally enacted way?'" said Council President Darrell L. Clarke.
Clarke's suggestion to revisit the practice — in which officers stop and sometimes search pedestrians or drivers over suspicious behavior — drew a chilly reception from Mayor Jim Kenney, who ran for office on a pledge to end illegal police stops.
