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For an example of this backed up by data, the NYPD stop-and-frisk program has always overwhelmingly focused on black and Latino people (almost 90% of all people
by crooked-v 8y ago
For an example of this backed up by data, the NYPD stop-and-frisk program has always overwhelmingly focused on black and Latino people (almost 90% of all people stopped in some years), even though they make up only 15% of the population of some of the precincts involved AND white people were more individually likely to actually have an illegal weapon (the supposed reason for the stop-and-frisk program to exist).
https://www.nyclu.org/en/stop-and-frisk-data https://www.nyclu.org/en/stop-and-frisk-data
https://www.nyclu.org/en/press-releases/analysis-finds-racial-disparities-ineffectiveness-Nypd-stop-and-frisk-program-links https://www.nyclu.org/en/press-releases/analysis-finds-racia...