Mayor de Blasio, facing growing concerns over a wave of shootings last month that was more than double the total for June 2019, dismissed the possibility that public sentiment might force a return to the extensive use of stop-and-frisk tactics that he successfully campaigned against to win office seven years ago.
Stop-and-frisk was a major part of the effort to get guns off the street by the administration of his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, during his first decade in office. They mushroomed from 97,000 in 2002, the year Mr. Bloomberg became Mayor, to 685,000 in 2011.
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