NYPD stop-and-frisk report downplays racial bias: court papers

June 7, 2017
Daily News

An analysis filed by a court-appointed NYPD monitor on May 30 determined stops had dropped dramatically in recent years — but that racial disparities persist with regard to who's stopped.

The federal monitor, Peter Zimroth, wrote in his report that stops had plummeted from 191,851 in 2013 to 22,563 in 2015.

The report showed percent-based racial breakdown of stops — which shows minorities are disproportionately impacted — "remained largely the same," however. ...

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