New York Cops Frisking More Innocents Than Ever
The NYPD stopped (and often frisked) 600,000 New Yorkers last year, an all-time high since recordkeeping began in 2002. What percentage of those stops led to an arrest? Seven. Seven percent. The other 93% of the time, the people were not arrested. Because they were not committing any crime. Although they were stopped by the police.
As in past years, the likelihood that one thinks these statistics are positive is inversely proportional to the likelihood that one has been stopped and frisked for dubious reasons by the NYPD.
