NYC Stop & Frisk: Estimated 342,000 victims in 2011

Mike · Feb 14, 2012

Do the math ...

CBS Local New York: NYPD "Stop and Frisks" Hit All-Time High

CBS Local New York said:

The number of so-called "stop and frisks" is rising. City police officers stopped and questioned 684,330 people on the street last year, a record since the NYPD began yearly tallies of the tactic in 2002 and a 14 percent increase over 2010. It couldn't be determined how many people were patted down during the encounters, according to the Wall Street Journal. Typically, half of the potential suspects who are stopped are frisked or searched.
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That's like illegally searching 90% of Minneapolis in one year.

They just agreed to a $15M payout for illegal loitering arrests. I wonder what this will cost them eventually?

Lisa Simeone · Feb 14, 2012

More taxpayer dollars at work!

nachtnebel · Feb 15, 2012

none of those stopped have money to sue? surely not all of these meet terry frisk criteria....

Lisa Simeone · Feb 15, 2012

nachtnebel said: ↑

none of those stopped have money to sue? surely not all of these meet terry frisk criteria....
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Well, the vast majority of them are poor people. I think the statistic from the video I posted the other week was 92% inner-city black and Hispanic. Can't remember.

Lisa Simeone · Feb 15, 2012

Record Number of Street Stops Prompts a Protest

New York City police officers stopped people and questioned them 684,330 times in 2011, the highest number since the department started collecting the data in 2002, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union.

The number represents a 14 percent increase over the 2010 figure and a roughly 600 percent increase from the first year of theBloomberg administration, a decade ago. Many, but not all, of those stopped were frisked.

As in previous years, a vast majority of those stopped, 87 percent, were black or Latino. About 9 percent were white.

The civil liberties group received the figures from the City Council as the result of a Freedom of Information request, and thePolice Department confirmed them separately. The record number prompted civil rights leaders and elected officials to protest on Tuesday in front of City Hall.

“It’s racial profiling, it’s racism, and it’s having dire consequences in our city,” Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, said at the event. Mr. Stringer accused Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of failing to take responsibility for the Police Department’s use of the stop-and-frisk policy, and of simply deferring to the judgment of the police commissioner,Raymond W. Kelly.

“I am today calling on Mayor Bloomberg to step out of the shadow of Commissioner Kelly and lead on this issue,” Mr. Stringer said. “You cannot hide anymore on an issue that is so compelling.”
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The executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Donna Lieberman, called the new numbers “a scandal.” She dismissed the Police Department’s argument that the practice had made the public safer, saying that over the last decade fewer than 1 in 650 street stops, or one-fifteenth of 1 percent, had led to an arrest for possession of a firearm.
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RB · Feb 15, 2012

Has the ACLU (or any other group) challenged this practice in a court?

Lisa Simeone · Feb 16, 2012

boggie dog said: ↑

Has the ACLU (or any other group) challenged this practice in a court?
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I think the ACLU is constantly involved in these cases all over the country. As they are in this one in New York. But for every one they win, there are a hundred more that go either unprosecuted, settled, or never charged. It's a never-ending battle.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/aclu-lawsuit-against-nypd_n_868135.html

http://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-re...nt-city-philadelphia-stop-and-frisk-challenge

http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/stop-and-frisk

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