United States Conference of Mayors
Amicus Curiae
Lawrence Rosenthal, Counsel of Record United States Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of all United States cities with populations of 30,000 or more. Lawrence Rosenthal is a professor at Chapman University School of Law, where he teaches constitutional and criminal law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 6, 2010. The violent crime surge of the late 1980s and the early 1990s was largely a product of violent competition in urban drug markets. Intensive stop-and-frisk tactics targeting “hot spots” of crime proved to…
