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Stopped and Frisked–and Innocent

By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Every year for the past decade, under the agency’s “stop-and-frisk” program, New York City police officers have stopped 500,000 to nearly 700,000 citizens on the city’s streets. Nearly 90  percent of those stopped are Black and Hispanic men, women and children. The department’s own data show that at most […]