08/12/2010 // West Palm Beach, FL, USA // Tara Monks // Tara Monks
New York, NY – New York City police performed almost 170,000 “stop and frisks” between April and July, according to statistics released Tuesday, August 10, 2010. The Wall Street Journal reported the number 170,000, is 21 percent higher than the amount of “stop and frisks” performed during the same span last year.
Police made exactly 169,403 stops, increasing the number of “stop and frisks” for the first half of the year to 319,156; a two percent increase from last year.
According to WSJ reports on the data, blacks were the subjects of 54 percent of the stops during this past quarter. Hispanics comprised of 34 percent of the stops. Whites made up a mere nine percent of the stops.
According to population and crime statistics, blacks make up approximately 27 percent of the city’s population and 66 percent of violent crime suspects. Hispanics make up approximately 27 percent of the population, as well as 27 percent of the city’s violent crime suspects. Whites comprise about 45 percent of the population and five percent of the crime suspects.
According to reports from the latest quarter, eight percent of the stops resulted in a summons, while seven percent led to arrests.
In June, a new law was instated that required over a million names and other identifying information on people stopped and questioned by police but not charged to be deleted from the NYPD database. Advocates of the law claimed police do not have the constitutional right to use such information.
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