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NYT: "Escape from New York"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In Escape from New York, an op-ed piece on changing demographics in NYC, a reminder of stop and frisk in the City According to a report in The Times last year, there were a record 580,000 stop-and-frisks in the city in 2009. Most of those stopped (55 percent) were black (a large portion were also Hispanic), most were young and almost all were male. For reference, according to the Census Bureau, there were about only 300,000 black men between the ages of 13 and 34 living in the city that year. A mere 6 percent of the stops resulted in arrests. The Times article revealed that in one eight-block area of an overwhelmingly black neighborhood in Brooklyn, the police made 52,000 stops in just four years, an average of nearly one stop for each resident each year...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on March 19, 2011 (boomark / email).