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The NYPD Stop and frisk policy is nothing more than modern day racism. It’s an inconvenience to minorities because it’s targeting them unlawfully and it creates a divide between them and the police department that is sworn to protect them. The Stop and Frisk policy in New York, is a complicated issue with its fair share of both supporters and critics. According to NYCLU.org statistics in 2012, New Yorkers were stopped by the police a total of 532,911 times: The total number of innocent people that were stopped was 473,644, which is 89 percent. The total number of African & Latino Americans that were confronted during stop and frisk in 2012 was 449,369 and the total numbers that were white was 50,366. As you can see that is a huge discrepancy in the numbers which shows that you’re more likely to be stopped if you have an African American or Latino heritage. This report will explain why this glorified policy will be stooped with three main points; the policy was manifested using racial profiling, it destroys the trust between the Police and its citizens, and it has little to no effect on the decline of crime.

Stop and Frisk Was based On Race
According to the OLR Research Report in 2007, In Terry v Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, (1968), “ The U.S. Supreme Court decided that a police officer may briefly detain a person to determine a proper identity and to conduct a threshold inquiry”. On October 31, 1963 in Cleveland, OH, a man by the name of John W. Terry and Richard Chilton was approached by a police officer in plain clothes that thought he was acting suspicious. The officer asked Terry and his companions their name and identified himself as a police officer. The officer then spun Terry around, patted him down and felt a pistol in his over...

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... are low crime rates and where residential populations are racially heterogeneous or predominantly White.”
Moreover, Fagan’s report also explained that when blacks and Hispanics have been stopped, they were more likely to be subjected to the use of force, and that despite this, the probability of these stops resulting in further action was higher when whites were involved than minorities (Fagan, 2013).

In conclusion, New York City’s Stop & Frisk Policy is just utterly sickening. We believe the people who support this policy, are either blind to the fact that majority of the stops are racially bias or they know the facts and choose to not factor the truth in their beliefs. Statically it did not bring crime down and it doesn’t stop people from committing crime. There are better ways to make the city of New York safe, and it doesn’t involve continuing this practice.

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