Stop-and-frisk is getting renewed attention in Philly amid a mayor’s race focused on crime
Democratic candidate for mayor Cherelle Parker talks with voters following a mayoral forum earlier this month. - Tom Gralish/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

PHILADELPHIA — Three years ago, then-City Councilmember Cherelle Parker drafted a resolution asking voters to ban illegal use of the policing tactic known as stop-and-frisk, a largely ceremonial gesture she marked by issuing a news release saying there was “no correlation between the elimination of stops and frisks and an increase in violent crime.” But last year, as shootings continued to leave residents killed or wounded at a record pace for the third straight year, Parker — who by then was preparing to run for mayor — held a news conference to declare that legal use of the tactic should be ...