{"id":9723,"date":"2012-05-14T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T21:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9723"},"modified":"2012-05-14T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T21:08:06","slug":"out-of-control-nypd-stopped-351739-people-last-year-for-furtive-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9723","title":{"rendered":"Out of Control, NYPD Stopped 351,739 People Last Year for \u201cFurtive Movements\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYPD Stopped 351,739 People Last Year for \u201cFurtive Movements\u201d<\/strong>
\nPosted on May 14, 2012 by emptywheel<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a good deal of reporting on this report the NYCLU released last week, but the report itself must be read to fully understand the gravity of the stop-and-frisk abuse in NYC.<\/p>\n

Consider this chart, for example, showing that Mike Bloomberg has had even more success inflating stop-and-frisk numbers than he ever had inflating the stock market.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the stat that shows more young black men were stopped last year (168,126 stops of young black men) than reside in the city over all (158,406 total)\u2013statistically, at least, every single young black man has been stopped.<\/p>\n

Finally, though, there\u2019s the list of reasons cops gave for having stopped someone in the first place\u2013with \u201cfurtive movements\u201d accounting for over half the stops, and \u201cclothes commonly used in a crime\u201d (does this mean hoodies?) cited in 31,555. What\u2019s worse, cops only suspect a violent crime 10% of the time.<\/p>\n

The cops frisked the person they stopped over half the time\u2013purportedly because they suspected a weapon that might threaten the officer. Yet they found the weapon that justified the search less than 2% of the time\u2013and weapons were more often found on white men who were stopped than blacks or LatinosIn December, Nicholas Peart wrote a devastating op-ed on what it has been like for him to mature under Bloomberg\u2019s stop-and-frisk explosion, describing the four times he has been stopped and frisked. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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NYPD Stopped 351,739 People Last Year for \u201cFurtive Movements\u201d Posted on May 14, 2012 by emptywheel There\u2019s been a good deal of reporting on this report the NYCLU released last week, but the report itself must be read to fully understand the gravity of the stop-and-frisk abuse in NYC. Consider this chart, for example, showing more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3004],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9724,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions\/9724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}