Newly-released figures show an increase in the number of people are being stopped and frisked by police.
Numbers provided to the City Council by the New York City Police Department show officers stopped nearly 320,000 people in the first half of this year.
That’s a two-percent increase over the same period last year.
The majority of those stopped were black and Hispanic.
Over the last three months, only seven percent of the stops resulted in arrests, though more than 2,000 weapons were recovered.
A law passed last month prohibits the department from storing the names of people stopped if they are not arrested. The NYPD contends the law only applies to electronic records, and has reminded officers they can collect information as long as they do it on paper.
(Source: NY1)
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thanks NYPD, you rock!!!
7% arrested, thats great!!
That’s not enough!!!
this only leads to horrific injustice because everyone knows the police only practice racial profiling. if their going to stop and frisk people they need to automate it and frisk 80year old women and little children just as often as anyone else otherwise its simply discrimination. i 25 year old black man has every right to walk down the street acting and dressing however he feels like, this country has no mandatory dress code. they need to vilify and abuse rich white business women just as often as they do innocent men like myself. “must_hock” are you being sarcastic or are you just ridiculous, i think you belong on the celtic news network, not here. oh, maybe you just cower in your apartment your whole life so this doesnt bother you, well people like me would like to excersize our right to be free to walk to the grocery store without a police man shoving us around as spitting in our faces and laughing at us and threatening us for no reason at all.