Group: NYPD stop-frisk racially motivated
Photo credit: AP | Political activist Dr. Cornel West is taken into custody by New York City police officers at a "Stop and Frisk" policy protest in Harlem. (Oct. 21, 2011)
The mushrooming number of stop-and-frisks done last year by the NYPD targeted large numbers of black and Latino New Yorkers and appears to be the result of racial profiling, according to an analysis of police data by the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Over 87 percent of the street stops by police involved blacks and Latinos, the report stated, adding that 57.5 percent of those groups stopped...
