Word: copse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A particular sore point is the unit's aggressive use of "stop and frisk" tactics. Of the 27,061 people its officers frisked last year, more than 80% were unarmed, which suggests that the cops felt they needed little in the way of probable cause to stop someone. Critics say...
The idea of cops walking the beat-- a central tenet of community policing--is not being implemented, and patrol officers themselves are the major obstacle.
At issue was what is called "geographicassigning," where departments assign specificofficers to regularly patrol specificneighborhoods for extended periods of time, in thestyle of cops walking their beats.
But citizens seem to be responding, even ifthey don't yet have a face and a name to go withthe cops that walk their beat.
N.W.A. "Of cops, dying in L.A. / Yo Dre, I got something to say F_____ tha police."