INTERESTING ! A few years back, I sat on a working group in the New York Attorney General’s Office to look at the practice, specifically its implementation and efficacy. The group found that in one year, 2011, there were more stops of young black men in the city than there were actual young black men – meaning that on average, every single young black man in the city had been stopped by cops that year. As the NYCLU put it: The number of stops of young black men exceeded the entire city population of young black men (168,126 as compared to 158,406). Ninety percent of young black and Latino men stopped were innocent.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 00:20:08 +0000