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In regards to adolescents and their maltreatment on Rikers Island, it is plausible that Mayor de Blasio should encourage the Department of Corrections to separate these young offenders from older inmates and encourage education to assist in rehabilitation rather than confinement and captivity. It should also be required that Correctional Officers be retrained on proper conduct and unbiased treatment of all inmates rather than frequently resorting to unwarranted excessive force. The stop and frisk law should be reevaluated the way Mayor de Blasio has commenced with input from communities that have been negatively and positively impacted by execution of this act. It is important to fairly and honestly revisit the purpose of the stop and frisk regulation and its effectiveness on crime. Stop and frisk has surpassed acceptable boundaries by attempting to sway the opinions of communities impacted that the government has implemented this law for the safety of all, but has proven to be a vehicle for legally allowing racial profiling. The conditions on Rikers Island, use of stop and frisk, and broken windows policing all play a major role in public safety and our public respect for government and the law. It is standard for officials to disagree with how the rehabilitation system or policing should be controlled; however, it is important to keep the morality of humans and the social contract at the forefront of our implementation of the