The New York City Police Department is disputing a report released by the New York Civil Liberties Union today, which alleges that a record number of New Yorkers are being stopped and frisked by the police department.
According to the study, more than 273,000 people were stopped and interrogated during the first six months of this year. That number is up 15 percent from this time last year.
The study claims a majority of those stopped were either black or Latino.
While nine out of 10 stops resulted in no charges or citations, the union says the names and addresses of those who were stopped are now stored in an NYPD database.
In response to the findings, the NYPD released a statement saying, “In a city where police make 400,000 arrests annually based on the higher standard of probable cause (and issue another 400,000 criminal court summonses), 500,000 or even 600,00 stops annually is not unreasonable. Further, the stops comport by race proportionally with descriptions provided by crime victims.”
As for race, the NYPD says the numbers are proportional to the descriptions provided by crime victims.
(Source: NY1)
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Whwn the police send out an APB that a black man has robbed someone,the cops should have to stop one little old white lady for every black male they stop.One must be politicly correct, and the stop and frisk statistics would look better
These statistics are from the US Department of Justice:
“At midyear 2008, there were 4,777 black male inmates per 100,000 black males held in state and federal prisons and local jails, compared to 1,760 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males and 727 white male inmates per 100,000 white males.”
One generally doesn’t shop for cheese in a hardware store. Who should the cops be stopping, based on those figures?