Stop and Frisk from the perspective of teenagers
Just saw this illuminating but depressing story about the frequency with which teens are stopped & frisked (or not, depending mostly on race & neighborhood) and how they think about it.
"One in five people stopped last year by the New York City police department was a teenager between the ages of 14 and 18, according to a WNYC analysis of recently released police data.
Eighty-six percent of those teenagers who were stopped were either black or Latino, most of them boys.
Last year, there were more than 120,000 stops of black and Latino kids between 14 and 18. The total number of black and Latino boys that age in the entire city isn’t much more than that – about 177,000 – which strongly suggests a teen male with dark skin in New York City will probably get stopped and frisked by the time he’s graduated from high school."
continued:
"For City’s Teens, Stop And Frisk Is Black And White"
http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2012/may/29/city-teenagers-say-stop-and-frisk-all-about-race-and-class/
