Blacks & Latinos Made Up 87% of NYPD Stop & Frisks in 2011
/NYPD Report [HERE]
The NYPD released a report last night showing they stopped-and-frisked a record number of people in 2011, with blacks making up 53% of the stops, followed by Latinos at 34%, and whites around 9%. "The nearly 686,000 stops conducted in 2011 equated to less than one stop per police officer per week among the 19,600 officers on patrol during the period," Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Paul Browne said in an email. Brooklyn's 75th Precinct, which covers East New York, Cypress Hills, Starrett City and City Line, saw the most stops, with 31,100—97% of them involved blacks and Hispanics.
Blacks and Latinos together make up 52.8% of the population in the city, yet they represented roughly 87% of all stop and frisks in 2010. You wouldn't surmise that from this Daily News headline on the report: "No racial profiling in 'stop and frisk:' NYPD report."
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4th Amendment Not Real for Non-Whites. The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, although only one sentence long, protects people against unjustified detentions by the government. It reads: 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.
In order for the police to stop you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and the person detained is involved in the activity. In order to frisk you the Supreme Court has ruled that the police must have independent reasonable articulable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous before they may touch you (a cursory patdown for weapons). Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion.
Clearly these rules are only intended for white people. Non-whites are stopped and then frisked because they are Non-white. This does not happen to white folks. It happens to all non-white people regardless of income, education, political affiliation or skin color. [MORE]
