Reply #9: NYT: Arrest rates are the same for Blacks and whites stopped and frisked in NYC. But Blacks

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Blacks and Latinos are NINE TIMES more likely to be stopped and frisked.
In 2009, the NYPD stopped and frisked 53,000 whites and 490,000 Blacks and Latinos.

This story IMO shows that marijuana drug busts are so alarmingly high for minorities in
large cities because the police are alarmingly likely to be going through their pockets for no valid reason.

From http://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/new-york-be-black-or-latino-be-stopped-be-frisked :

"May 13th, 2010
Posted by Michael Cummings, New York Civil Liberties Union at 5:10pm
Racial Profiling In New York, Be Black (or Latino), Be Stopped, Be Frisked

The New York Times ran an article (at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/nyregion/13frisk.html ) today showing the alarming racial disparities in the New York Police Department's (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices. ... For black and Latino New Yorkers, being stopped by the police for no discernable reason is a fact of life. Statistics tell the story: NYPD officers stopped nearly 490,000 blacks and Latinos last year, compared with 53,000 whites. In other words, blacks and Latino were nine times more likely to be stopped, questioned or frisked by the police than whites.

According to the Times article, arrest rates of blacks and whites stopped by police were nearly identical „ about 6 percent. Overall, NYPD officers stopped and interrogated at least 505,000 completely innocent people in 2009, the most ever since the department began collecting data on its troubling stop-and-frisk program.

What the article doesn't mention is that the NYPD keeps the personal information of every single innocent person it stops. Didn't do anything wrong? Just walking down the street while black? It doesn't matter „ your name is now in a sprawling police database. Essentially, the NYPD is compiling a massive database of law-abiding black and Latino New Yorkers, and has turned more than 1 million innocent New Yorkers into criminal suspects. ..."