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  If a city shows annually 1,000 violent crimes and subsequently crime drops to 500, that would mean there have been 500 less assaults and the local residents' risk is assumed to have been reduced by half. That kind of swing is at the heart of what Dr Richard A Vargus calls the Great American Crime Decline. Describing how the Broken Windows Theory and the use of stop, question, and frisk were the catalysts in reducing crime. He argues that this police tool helped drive that 50 percent slide in violent crime in major cities like New York. Then political pressure and racial controversy reversed two decades of crime reduction. Here is the thing. You cannot talk honestly about crime reduction in the 1990s and 2000s without talking about stop, question, and frisk.     What Stop, Question, and Frisk Really Was In simple terms, stop, question, and frisk, often shortened to SQF, was the Supreme Court decision of Terry v. Ohio, and New York State Penal Law, section 140....