87% Of People Stopped And Frisked By NYPD In 2009 Were Minorities
From the NY Post:
The NYPD performed 575,304 “stop-and-frisk” patdowns last year — the most since the numbers have been released, the department revealed yesterday.
While it was an 8 percent jump from 2008, the percentage for each racial demographic stayed about the same.
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Some 55 percent of those stopped last year were black, 32 percent Hispanic, 10 percent white and 3 percent Asian.
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