STOP AND FRISK
The Stop and Frisk Act was an act set in place by Bloomberg in order to reduce gun violence. As a result, young Latino and Black men in low income communities were discriminated against. This resulted in protests against the act.
“Put the cops where the crime is, which means minority neighborhoods. One of the unintended consequences is people say, Oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities. Yes, that's true. Why? Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. Why do we do that? Because that is where all the crime is”. - Bloomberg, February, 6 2011 at the Aspen Institute
NY Civil Liberties UnionAccording to a report by the New York Civil Liberties Union: “Young black and Latino men were the targets of a hugely disproportionate number of stops. Though they accounted for only 4.7 percent of the city’s population, black and Latino males between the ages of 14 and 24 accounted for 41 percent of stops between 2003 and 2013. Nearly 90 percent of young black and Latino men stopped were innocent.”
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American Civil Liberties UnionData by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shows the negative impacts of Bloomberg’s stop and frisk policies, especially on People of Color. The data collected by the ACLU revealed that: “innocent New Yorkers have been subjected to police stops and street interrogations more than 5 million times since 2002, and that Black and Latinx communities continue to be the overwhelming target of these tactics. At the height of stop-and-frisk in 2011 under the Bloomberg administration, over 685,000 people were stopped. Nearly 9 out of 10 stopped-and-frisked New Yorkers have been completely innocent”.
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