What was the cost of stop & search preventing an estimated 703 murders over 180 months in Chicago (4 murders per month), primarily in minority areas? Skogan's unprecedented analysis allows us to ask whether that price could be lower, avoiding both under-policing and over-policing for 'just right' targeting of the most volatile strategy police use against weapons crime.

Lawrence W. Sherman, Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing

A richly detailed report of police stop & frisk rates as a primary street policing strategy in Chicago over a decade. It is a careful and sophisticated study that can provide policy analysts with tools for assessing and improving the effectiveness and fairness of fundamental tactics of urban street policing.

Franklin E. Zimring, Simon Professor of Law, University of California (Berkeley)

Skogan's work is a masterclass on how to evaluate policing policy from a multitude of angles, consolidating three decades of research to produce the most comprehensive possible examination of stop and frisk in a major American city. For scholars and practitioners alike, Stop & Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago is a much-needed intervention in the field, stripping political agenda as much as possible and instead presenting the reality of the stop and frisk's impacts.

Paul Bleakley, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books