The greater use of stop-and-frisk in Philadelphia could lead to a myriad of unwanted consequences, such as lawsuits against the city, greater racial disparities in the criminal justice system, citizen unrest and distrust of the police.
Yet, since the mid-1990s, data repeatedly shows that tough-on-crime approaches - such as zero-tolerance policies, mandatory sentencing and mass incarceration - cost taxpayers large sums of money, are inefficient and can even make crime worse, specifically among youth.
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