[Zhang Fei]

And their claim that it has lowered crime is also a joke. They claim this by including all of the completely bogus little tickets they hand out to reach their quotas for things like blocking the sidewalk (because they are being stopped by the cops!), or any number of other BS reasons they make up.

The crime stats - which are composed of robberies, thefts, rapes, homicides and so on - have nothing to do with ticket-writing.

[rudabaga]

And you believe them that stopping and frisking millions of people is the reason for lowering the stats on those felonies? You probably believe in CompStat too.