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New NYPD data shows record number of stop-and-frisks in 12-month period
February 19, 2009
New data from the New York City Police Department shows the final total of stop-and-frisks for 2008 to be a record 531,159. Over 80 percent of them were of Black and Latino New Yorkers.
Newly released NYPD data shows shocking disparity in stop-and-frisks
January 16, 2009
From 2005 to 2008, approximately 80 percent of NYPD’s total stops made were of Blacks and Latinos, who are more likely to have physical force used against them than Whites.