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CCR notes 21% increase in stop and frisk in NYC

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The Center for Constitutional Rights issued a press release this afternoon concerning concerning the fact that the NYPD's stop and frisk statistics show a 21% increase over the same period last year. CCR has found significant racial disparities for stop-and-frisks over the last decade based on NYPD data turned over by court order. CCR, which represents victims of the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk policies in a class action lawsuit, will receive more comprehensive data than the summary numbers released to the City Council yesterday and will provide those results as soon as they are available. Meanwhile, the preliminary numbers reported indicate a 21 percent rise in the number of New Yorkers being stopped by the police over the same period last year, with 88 percent of the New Yorkers stopped being Black and Hispanic...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on August 11, 2010 (boomark / email).