The Stop and Frisk seem to be out of the blue, perhaps a new way for police officers to raise their numbers of arrests with acceptable racial profiling. Data collected by the NYCLU (New York Civil Liberties Union) shows the number of arrests at its start in 2002 to be at a surprising high of over 97 thousand arrests with 82 percent of individuals stopped being totally innocent. At its peak in 2011 with over 685 thousand stops it seemed numbers were going up and up for no good reason since 88% of individuals stopped were found innocent as well. In recent years though, numbers have drastically gone down with the amount of stops decreasing to just below 23 thousand with 80% of the stopped found totally innocent.
Though data shows that the White population is the largest group, 44% of the total population, they are not the majority of the stops made. In data analysis of stop and frisks the largest amount of stops were made to Black and Hispanic individuals—and people have been taking notice. Nicole Sack has the story.