evidence: Stop and frisk, similar to stop and search in the UK, is a police tactic to reduce violent crime. It gives police officers powers to stop someone they suspect of committing a crime and the authority to search a person if they are suspected of carrying a weapon. Claim 1: Mike Bloomberg said: "I discovered that we were doing many, many, too many stop and frisks. [...] It's true there was a big reduction in the number of times stop and frisk was used by police towards the end of his tenure after it had peaked in 2011.