An increasingly tense relationship between residents and a handful of police contributed to chaos that erupted on Franklin Street on June 19. The incident has prompted questions about whether policies like stop-and-frisk do more harm to neighborhood relations than they're worth. William Carter, a professor at Temple's Beasley School of Law, said that accusations of "overly aggressive policing of minority communities" are usually discussed in terms of civil rights or racial issues. "It's simply bad policing to police a community in a way that the community feels that it's constantly under suspicion," he said. "If the community distrusts you, then the everyday situations, like [on Franklin Street], can spiral out of control.