How NYPD's (Blatent Racially Profiling) "Stop and Frisk" Policy Ensnares 600,000 a Year...

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3. 91% of those 'stopped and frisked' are non-white, and 90% aren't charged.

The NYPD will tell you it's not racial profiling. And they've got a bridge for sale, I hear, too.

http://www.nyclu.org/issues/racial-justice/stop-and-frisk-practices

[div class='excerpt']An analysis by the NYCLU revealed that more than 4 million innocent New Yorkers were subjected to police stops and street interrogations from 2004 through 2011, and that black and Latino communities continue to be the overwhelming target of these tactics. Nearly nine out of 10 stopped-and-frisked New Yorkers have been completely innocent, according to the NYPD’s own reports:

People love to tout NYC's crime figures*- I guess having a virtual police state is the price you pay.



* About those numbers- they're artificially low, because the cops browbeat people into not filing complaints, use artificial criteria to downgrade reports, conveniently 'lose' reports.. see the village voice pieces on Adrian Schoolcraft's whistle blowing.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/09/federal_judge_n.php
http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-06-15/news/adrian-school-craft-nypd-tapes-whistleblower/
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/01/ray_kelly_polic_7.php
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/02/queens_da_takin.php