Thursday, May 10, 2012

In 2011, NYPD Made More Stops Of Young Black Men Than The Total Number Of Young Black Men In New York

In 2011, NYPD Made More Stops Of Young Black Men Than The Total Number Of Young Black Men In New York: During New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s first year in office, the New York Police Department stopped and interrogated 97,296 people on the streets. By 2007, with the Bloomberg administration pushing the a stop-and-frisk strategy, police made more than a half a million stops. Last year, the figure rose to a record 685,724 people. And [...]/p