This is a twitter timeline for a twitter bot that posts a tweet every ten minutes for each of the 685,724 people stopped in 2011.
Tweets by @stopandfrisk
This is a graph showing the number of Stop and Frisk for each year between 2003 and 2015. The data is provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union, who analyzed the dataset given by the NYPD. As you can see, the ones affected by the Stop and Frisk program were disproportionately Black and Latino.
The number of Stop and Frisks peaked in the year 2011. However, starting from the year 2012, many New Yorkers stood up and protested against the program. Police stops started to be videotaped by the public, causing police officers to think twice before stopping someone without a just cause. In the year 2015, the number of Stop and Frisks were at an all-time low, however they still tend to happen often in neighborhoods with residents that are Black or Latino.
Stop and frisk is defined as a brief, non-intrusive, police stop of a suspect. Police officers are required to have reasonable suspicion that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed before stopping a suspect, according to the Fourth Amendment.But do they? No. Most of the time they don’t even let the suspect know of the reason they are being stopped… Jackie Yates remembers the fury she felt three years ago when she looked through her South Bronx apartment window and saw police officers harassing her children.”They’re just walking down the street and get pushed up against a wall and get patted down,” says Yates, who is African-American. “My son said, ‘That’s nothing. That happens all the time.’ Our kids thought this was something that was normal.” Normal. Let that sink in.
Broken Windows:
New York’s stop-and-frisk policy was adopted as part of the controversial “broken windows” theory, which argues that more serious crime can be reduced if police crack down on minor infractions, including vandalism and trespassing. Police stops in New York City have skyrocketed over the past decade, peaking at 685,724 stops in 2011, a more than 600 percent increase since 2002. Of those stopped in 2011, 53 percent were black and 34 percent were Latino. White people accounted for only 9 percent of the stops, even though they make up a third of the city’s population.
