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NYPD Stopped, Frisked 8.6% of City in 2011 (98% of those stopped were minorities)
Newser ^ | 02/05/2013 | By Kevin Spak,

Posted on 02/05/2013 12:04:44 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

(Newser) – The NYPD detained the equivalent of 8.6% of all New Yorkers as part of its controversial "stop and frisk" program in 2011, and almost all of them were minorities, according to a statistical breakdown the department released last night. All told, police stopped a record 685,724 people, and nearly 90% of them were either black or Hispanic, the New York Post reports. Only 9% were white and 4% Asian. In many places, the racial disparity was even worse. In the two precincts that saw the most stops, Brooklyn's 75th and 73rd, 97% and 98% of cases, respectively, involved blacks or Hispanics.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: newyorkcity
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I see the problem here. It's them damn white people who aren't committing enough crimes. If only them whities were more suspicious, they'd get frisked more.
1 posted on 02/05/2013 12:04:52 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

NYT : “ Whites not contributing their fair share of crimes”


2 posted on 02/05/2013 12:08:43 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Responsibility2nd

“What difference, at this point, does it make?”


3 posted on 02/05/2013 12:10:56 PM PST by mkboyce
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To: Responsibility2nd
4th - "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
4 posted on 02/05/2013 12:11:52 PM PST by Clock King
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To: Responsibility2nd

They don’t dare tell us the crime rate and descriptions of criminals in the Pcts.


5 posted on 02/05/2013 12:12:39 PM PST by capt B
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“(98% of those stopped were minorities”

You mean, whites were stopped the most?


6 posted on 02/05/2013 12:13:21 PM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: Responsibility2nd

How many had contraband?
How many had prior arrest records?
How many convictions resulted from the frisking?
Was the crime rate in the targeted neighborhoods significantly reduced?

A smart robber robs banks because that is where there is money.


7 posted on 02/05/2013 12:13:23 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Clock King

“stop and frisk” has been ruled costitutional


8 posted on 02/05/2013 12:14:53 PM PST by capt B
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To: Responsibility2nd

Stay the hell out of NYC. A friend of mine got arrested for carrying a small pocket knife there. Yes, you read that right.


9 posted on 02/05/2013 12:15:12 PM PST by TheRhinelander
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To: Clock King

“stop and frisk” has been ruled constitutional


10 posted on 02/05/2013 12:15:12 PM PST by capt B
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To: Responsibility2nd

Bob Dylan wandered into a neighborhood where white people were scarce (this in the 21st century) and was stopped and probed with questions about what he was up to (he was not recognized).

Sounds like he was targeted BECAUSE he was white.


11 posted on 02/05/2013 12:17:00 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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So, in NYC they just stop people who look like Obama’s son, if he’d had a son?


12 posted on 02/05/2013 12:17:38 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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The assumption is that it is racist whites doing the frisking of minorities. NYPD is 20% black and 33% Latino. Whites are a minority in NYPD. And, as we all know, minorities cannot be guilty of racism against any race.


13 posted on 02/05/2013 12:18:34 PM PST by Teacher317 ('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
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“stop and frisk” has been ruled constitutional

So has abortion.
14 posted on 02/05/2013 12:20:52 PM PST by LonelyCon
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“stop and frisk” has been ruled constitutional So has abortion.

So has ObamaCare. So have random checkpoints. So have any number of other infringements.

Also, at least part of "stop and frisk" has been ruled unconstitutional.

15 posted on 02/05/2013 12:26:18 PM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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A bit of a long story but, he's from up near here and his nephew was playing in a band that we had hired for a New Years' Eve party.

Later in the evening a very scruffy looking character came in and I, as one of the organizers, was going to approach him because of his looks.

If he has anything like the same persona going now, I don't doubt that he was stopped. I am, however, surprised that the police were not intercepted by his bodyguards as I was.

16 posted on 02/05/2013 12:34:41 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Proud Thought Criminal since 1984)
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I highly doubt it was 8.6%.

It was probably more like 1-2% because there is a hardcore group of several thousand gangbangers/drugdealers who probably get stopped and frisked several times a month.

17 posted on 02/05/2013 12:34:55 PM PST by wideawake
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I hope that sexism doesn’t play a part.


18 posted on 02/05/2013 12:36:29 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
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To: Teacher317

White Hispanics can.


19 posted on 02/05/2013 12:36:29 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Proud Thought Criminal since 1984)
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To: TheRhinelander

I don’t believe you.


20 posted on 02/05/2013 12:37:39 PM PST by wideawake
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