Stop-and-Frisk: Only 3% of 2.4 Million Result in Conviction
The Guardian
These 30 seconds capture how the de Blasio campaign has upended the Bloomberg 1% era in New York politics
In a landmark decision today, a federal court found the New York City Police Department's highly controversial stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. Today is a victory for all New Yorkers. After more than 5 million stops conducted under the current administration, hundreds of thousands of them illegal and discriminatory, the NYPD has finally been held accountable. It is time for the City to stop denying the problem and work with the community to fix it.
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