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Because of the NYPD's abiding commitment to self-transcendence in the fields of racial profiling and constitutional violation, the department has beat its own lofty record for the number of reported stop and frisk interrogations in three months. According to a data revealed today [pdf] at the NYCLU's insistence, the NYPD stopped and searched more innocent people during the first three months of 2009 than during any three-month period since police began collecting data on the program.
Police stopped and interrogated New Yorkers 171,094 times between January and March, and more than 151,000 of those individuals were sent on their way without charges. Approximately 89,000 of those stopped were black, 56,000 were Latino, and 16,000 were white. It all adds up to a whopping 18 percent increase from the 145,098 stops conducted during the first three months of 2008, which was the prior record. The NYCLU predicts that if stops continue at this pace, the NYPD will conduct a record 626,767 stops in 2009. (In 2008, the current record, police stopped New Yorkers 531,159 times.)
"In just three months, the NYPD stopped enough totally innocent New Yorkers to fill the new Yankee Stadium three times over," said the NYCLU's Donna Lieberman in a statement. "These New Yorkers’ personal information is now stored in an NYPD database...The NYPD is, in effect, building a massive database of black and brown New Yorkers." The NYCLU is demanding that Commissioner Ray Kelly end the practice of recording the names and addresses of everyone stopped. Earlier this month, Kelly defended the stop and frisk program but added a new twist: Any officer stopping a person in the street for a pat-down must divulge "the reason, or reasons, why it occurred."
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"The NYPD is, in effect, building a massive database of black and brown New Yorkers"
Um...yeah..who do you think is committing the crimes?
Ah, but the people they are stopping are not actually committing crimes. They are simply walking down the street.
Please read your Constitution and respective Amendments, if you are able to what with your head so far up your arse. Perhaps you can get a reading light installed up in there?
Um...Madoff? Meth heads? C'mon, tell us!
So do we in turn say that the United States, as a whole, has been, for over 50 years creating a database of black and brown Americans?
These findings are ridiculous. Statistically and not racially speaking, black and brown Americans are committing crimes.
What a shocker!
I was stopped and frisked once last spring -- 20 year old white girl in a dress and heels, walking home at 1am. Not drunk, not rowdy, just walking alone down a street in Yorkville. They told me they were frisking me because they'd seen me talk to a "suspicious person," who turned out to be a homeless man who I'd given change to and said "good night" to.
It was more like a "stop and grope." I've never been more humiliated in my life. They were two male cops, and they made me put my hands against the cop car and spread my legs. When I told them that I had no problem with being frisked if they would get a female officer to do it, they laughed in my face and told me I didn't have a choice. If I refused to be frisked, they would arrest me.
So they spent an incredibly long time frisking me while a group of about nine men stood on the sidewalk and whistled at me. The cops drove after destroying every shred of dignity I had, and I was forced to walk past the cat-calling men in order to get to my apartment. It was the most disgusting, degrading experience I've ever had.
I was surprised that they stopped as many as 16,000 white people in those stats. Now we know the story behind at least a portion of those, because I'm sure that you are not the only woman who's been put through that for no reason other than some cops' entertainment.
Of course there's no way to know if you're really telling the truth here. Just some comment on the internet, it must be true!
It may not be true, mr. hell, but if you don't think this sort of thing happens routinely you don't know many new york city cops.
Sounds hot.
This is very upsetting, especially given other similar stories we have been hearing lately.
What is more upsetting is that people only seem to be outraged or even notice when the victim is a young white woman. I'm not saying that that in any way diminishes from the severity of the crime, but it upsets me.
Did you report this incident?
Yes, I did. I went to my local precinct house the next day and filed a report with the names of the officers who frisked me.
A few weeks later, I was mailed a copy of an "internal review" report, which said that the bureau found no evidence of wrong-doing and that the cops were justified in making their stop based on my "suspicious behavior."
I'm never going to trust a cop again.
"I went to my local precinct house the next day and filed a report"
Unfortunately, the wrong approach. Not that it necessarily would have brought a different result, but complaints should be made through the CCRB, not the local precinct. If there's no CCRB record of the incident, it's just dealt with internally... and while the Review Board itself certainly isn't perfect, it's at least not as motivated towards coverup as the supervisor at the local precinct will be.
CCRB complaints can be filed by phone, online, by mail or in person at 40 Rector Street. The can be filed the precinct, but since you said an "internal review" it appears that's not what was done, but that the investigation was done by IAB. A CCRB investigation wouldn't bring an "internal review report." In any case, I'd recommend anyone with a complaint bypass the precinct and file directly with the CCRB.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ccrb/html/contact.html
i know this is not the point but i'd stay off the streets late night. there is too much Trash out there.
sorry you had to go through that bells,
now you know why I rarely if ever believe cops and why they never ever believe us "civilians".
not that many of them served our country. and I'll dance my dance.....
Hmmm -- seems it's still "Giuliani time!"
I WISH it was still Giuliani time. He cleaned the city up and since he left, there's been slippage.
I wish all the police would just leave the city.
Yeah, that makes sense.
So what this report is saying is, stop-and-frisks caught 20,000 criminals in 3 months (or at least led to charges in 20,000 cases)?
Keep 'em coming.
89,000+56,000+16,000 = 161,000. The stops totaled over 171,000. There's room for them in there.
wow, food catch. My ADD kicked in.
good, not food:(
Maybe it was your hunger kicking in, not ADD?
actually I did not have anything since last night except for 5 cups of coffee with H&H. and been working since before 8am. sux. at least I have never been frisked.