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During a press conference to introduce the NYPD's new fleet of hybrid patrol cars, Commissioner Ray Kelly revealed a new addition to the department's controversial "stop and frisk" repertoire: Explaining. The new policy, which went into effect last week, requires any officer stopping a person in the street for a pat-down to divulge "the reason, or reasons, why it occurred." And in a pilot program being tested in Harlem, the South Bronx, and East New York, the subject of the search will also be given a 3-by-5-inch card explaining why the stop and frisk is so not racial profiling.