Tactics included sending letters to more than 200 suspected troublemakers warning them about their conduct and using warrants to search their homes for weapons.
And he reteams with Paul Greengrass, who directed him in "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum," for "Green Zone" (scheduled for a March release), in which he plays a chief warrant officer on a futile hunt for weapons of mass destruction in newly occupied Iraq.
The Suppression of Crime Act allowed the police and the military to work together in a novel way to disarm the people: soldiers sealed off entire neighbourhoods, and policemen systematically searched the houses inside for weapons without requiring a warrant.
Mr. Safir added that the Street Crime Unit would be "doing the normal road blocks" to search for weapons and check for outstanding warrants against passengers, "as well as doing a great deal of surveillance of livery cabs".
David Kapner, the Legal Aid Society's Manhattan arraignments supervisor, said smoking was the latest pretext that the police were using to stop people and check them for warrants or weapons.
Tucker, who already had an outstanding warrant for assault with a deadly weapon and making terrorist threats, is charged with auto theft, a hit and run, and fleeing from police.
A second man, Richard Mortensen, 43, of San Pablo, Calif., was arrested on outstanding warrants for drug and weapons charges.
The agreement also permits the Iraqi Army to search for weapons in Sadr City and detain fighters for whom they have warrants.
The search warrant asked a judge for permission to examine a residence associated with the teen and his car for weapons along with electronic devices, including laptops and cell phones for other communications and messages.
