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In 1996 the FBI crime Index stated that of the 25 largest United States cities, New York had the third lowest crime rate. For a city with a population of 18 million people, that is a pretty impressive statistic. This statistic was successfully achieved by introducing the “Zero Tolerance-Policing” on the act of mayor Rudolph Guiliani in 1993. Zero Tolerance-policing is a form of combating crime by “…eliminating most of the analysis stages and applying traditional law enforcement methods to solve the problem” (Goff 121). Which means, that police would “…target those individuals they feel are responsible for disorder and incivility within the community.”(Goff 121) The Zero Tolerance-policing has many key characteristics. To stop, search and question any individuals that had violated the law, even if there infraction was minor. William Bratton, who was now the new chief of police in New York, thought that if the police were to stop anyone who looked suspicious it might help police prevent any crimes from occurring as well as solving a crime or gathering information that might assist in solving a crime. As violence and crime seem to be progressing in our society the Zero Toleran