People Who Aren't Stopped and Frisked Are A-OK With the Stop and Frisk Program
The NYPD's "stop and frisk" program is essentially a program in which black people are stopped and frisked due to their display of criminal risk factors, like being nonwhite. A shocking new poll finds that black people tend to believe there's something wrong with the program.
First, allow us to remind you of these little NYCLU factoids published just months ago: "Though they account for only 4.7 percent of the city's population, black and Latino males between the ages of 14 and 24 accounted for 41.6 percent of stops in 2011. The number of stops of young black men exceeded the entire city population of young black men (168,126 as compared to 158,406). Ninety percent of young black and Latino men stopped were innocent."
With that in mind, here are the results of a new Quinnipiac poll on the practice, via the NYP:
Blacks opposed it by a 69-25 margin, while whites favored it, 57-37, and Hispanics backed it, 53-45.
Overall, New Yorkers disapproved of it, 50-45, according to the survey of 1,298 registered city voters last week.
Why can't black people just be copacetic about this whole stop and frisk thing, like white people are? Sheesh. Ray Kelly will take good care of you.
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