Stop-and-Frisks a Fraction of a Decade Ago, But Still Discriminatory, Critics Say

Critics of the NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk policy July 29 petitioned the Federal Judge overseeing the settlement of a 2013 ruling that they had been done in a discriminatory manner to take steps to make communities of color more involved in oversight of the policy, claiming that while far fewer stops have been conducted in recent years, they still have overwhelmingly targeted blacks and Latinos.

In addition, those critics, including Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and City Councilman Brad Lander, the Democratic nominee for City Comptroller, asserted that while two-thirds of those stops were attributed to suspicion that the person detained might be carrying a weapon, in 93 percent of those instances, none was found.