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May 13, 2010

Record 575,000 Stopped & Frisked in NYC in 2009
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Here in New York, newly released statistics show the city’s police
stopped and frisked over 575,000 individuals on the streets last year.
Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by
the police.



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