Feb
25
2011
Crazy PIC Fact of the Day: Police Harassment Edition
Despite being less than 44 percent of the total population of New York City, black and Latino males composed 85 percent of the pool chosen for stop-and-frisk searches last year. With officers stopping 601,055 people, that means a full 511,000 of those people were men of color (for reference, the population of the entire state of Wyoming is 544,000). (Source: The NYPD Stopped Enough Black Men Last Year to Populate Wyoming)
Uncategorized | prison culture | 25 February 2011 |
