NYPD Made More Stops Of Young Black Men Than The Total Number Of Young Black Men In New York

[La Lioness Priyanka]

Most troubling, the NYCLU report seemed to bear out charges of racial profiling in stop-and-frisk situations. In precincts where blacks and Latinos are least represented among the population (14 percent or less), blacks and Latinos were nonetheless the target of 70 percent of stops. Perhaps most staggeringly, the the Wall Street Journal highlighted that the number of stops of black men between the ages of 14 and 24 (168,126 ) exceeded the total city population of black men in that age range (158,406).

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/10/481589/nypd-stop-and-frisk-young-black-men/

[Bluenorthwest]

1. 87 % of marijuana arrests in NYC are of black and latino people, mostly young men.

Ths has been the case for years. This is in spite of the higher rates of marijuana use among whites. 87%. A link to some great graphs and facts....http://marijuana-arrests.com/nyc-pot-arrest-docs.html