The end of stop-and-frisk, which allowed police to pat down and search people on the street, will send crime "soaring to levels found in blighted cities like Chicago and Detroit," New York cops told the Post.
"Welcome to Chicago," one officer told the paper.
The Chicago Police Department fired back Tuesday afternoon, pointing to the paper's incorrect assertion that crime is "soaring" here.
"In Chicago, we've had significantly less crime, significantly fewer shootings and fewer murders of any year since 1965," Chicago Police Department spokesman Adam Collins said. "And we've done that without imposing on the rights of residents."
The stop-and-frisk ruling came down Monday, with a judge saying that the NYPD violated thousands of New Yorkers' constitutional rights by stopping and searching more than 4 million people they suspected of wrongdoing.
DNAinfo New York reports that the majority of those stopped and searched by New York police were black and Hispanic men — 88 percent of whom were released without any charges.
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