NYPD Releases Stop-and-Frisk Database in Face of NYCLU Lawsuit
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Davinski
on May 5, 2008 at 08:46 am
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The statistics for the New York City Police Department’s street interrogation practices are in, and they are not good: According to printed reports, between January 2006 and September 2007, NYPD officers stopped and frisked 867,617 New Yorkers – a rate of 1,360 every day, and a startling five times as many procedures as 2002. Almost 90 percent of those stopped were innocent.
The racial disparities are stark: police stopped 453,042 blacks and only 94,530 whites during that period.
It is certainly not statistics that are flattering to the department. That is probably the reason they gave them secretly to only the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at the University of Michigan. For months the NYCLU has requested the statistics without success, prompting them to file a lawsuit to get them in November.
Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the NYCLU, stated that it’s disturbing that the NYPD will give the data to anyone outside of our city who asks for it, but will fight tooth and nail to keep the information from New Yorkers.
The racial disparities are stark: police stopped 453,042 blacks and only 94,530 whites during that period.
It is certainly not statistics that are flattering to the department. That is probably the reason they gave them secretly to only the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at the University of Michigan. For months the NYCLU has requested the statistics without success, prompting them to file a lawsuit to get them in November.
Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the NYCLU, stated that it’s disturbing that the NYPD will give the data to anyone outside of our city who asks for it, but will fight tooth and nail to keep the information from New Yorkers.
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