The discrimination present in proactive policing techniques is in large part due to programs such as COMPSTAT, that assist in prioritizing police concern. Existing personnel and resource management programs like COMPSTAT, focus primarily on compiling data based on a narrow spectrum of crimes; in the process, turning a blind eye to more affluent neighborhoods and focusing only on certain minority populations. Due to decades of institutional racism, minority groups find themselves economically crippled and stuck in impoverished neighborhoods, where COMPSTAT has housed a majority of the police force. The basic complaint Bellin has and addresses in his article, revolves around the shortcuts programs like stop-and-frisk take. These shortcuts
