NYPD’s ‘Stop and Frisk’ Doesn’t Fight Crime or Get Guns Off the Street, Study Reveals
The NYPD loves to tout crime fighting as its rationale for randomly harassing African-American and Latino men, but a new report from DNAinfo reveals
that the stop and frisk program hasn’t increased the number of guns seized by police. In fact, the number of guns seized by police has dropped since the program was instituted:
During the past two years alone, the number of firearms seized by police has fallen 13.5 percent from 3,908 in 2009 with 510,742 frisks, to 3,443 last year, when the NYPD stopped and frisked a record-busting 685,724 New Yorkers.And last week the NYPD reported that during the first half of this year, firearm seizures continues to fall to 1,613, compared to 1,705 during the first six months of last year. The downturn came as the NYPD conducted 337,434 stops-and-frisks — a figure that keeps the NYPD on pace to match last year’s record-busting total.
By comparison, during Bloomberg’s first year in office in 2002, the NYPD recovered 4,069 guns — but the police stop-and-frisked only 96,000 people that year, according to NYPD data.
The NYPD, of course, has an answer for everything, and says its officers have seized fewer guns because people are aware that they may be randomly searched and don’t carry guns.
An earlier report by DNAinfo has also found that stop and frisk has not reduced gun violence. So what is the purpose of the program since it hasn’t reduced violence or increased the number of guns seized? What is the rationale? There doesn’t seem to be one. The only thing the NYPD has succeeded in doing is arresting black and brown men for small quantities of marijuana, even though the police commissioner issued a directive against making such arrests.
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New York City is turning into a police state all unto itself.More stop and frisks,less and less gun taken off the streets and this stupid Mayor Bloomberg is proud of himself.Pretty pathetic.
It just goes to show how well the officers listen to superiors when told not to arrest people who are stopped and frisked with a small amount of marijuana in their possession.
Mayor Bloomberg needs to be stopped and frisked then put in jail for being a complete failure.
What about how many knives were recovered? Or how about imitation pistols (bb guns or other look alike gun) ? Or how about tazers or Mace or billyclubs or blackjacks or any other weapons??? Ohhh ok!! Now the numbers look a little better.. Come on man!!! Stop question frisk def. works.. It keeps people in check from walking around the streets with a shotgun in their pants because of the possibility of a legal stop.. Plus since when is stop question frisk random?? It’s never been random .. It’s not legal to be random.. They need legal reson to stop you.. Why don’t you try educating yourself on a topic before you just copy and paste some non-sense statistics
They are out to arrest of kill as many blacks as they can.
Maybe I am just not aware of the facts, but the stop and frisk policy seems to violate your civil rights. Let’s start with it being an invasion of privacy. Somewhere in that policy has to be a violation of a person’s constitutional rights.
My 62-year old brother-in-law has been stopped. My husband and I were pulled over in a car!!! The only thing S&F accomplishes, is to give arrest records to ‘men of color’!!! Resulting in fewer chances for them to get decent jobs, and therefore, “not compete” with ‘those of no-color’!
Stop and frisk is a totally racist policy aimed at further marginalizing the disenfranchised. Real criminal don’t get caught because they can spot a trap long before the trap sees them and it is absolutely not a deterrent for a real criminal… that leaves only those without the resources to fight, being victimized by the very system that is supposed to protect them
Now what country is suppose to be Communist…? Hmmmm
The truth of the matter is, blacks in this country have been racially profiled for years. The sadness is we are all illeagally occupying a country that wasnt ours. America is still a baby, with only 200 years of history. Thats why we are in the shape we are in. Thats the problem, now whats the answere? We have to learn to be in this world,but not of its system. Revenge belongs to God. So whats our part? To love the h**l out of them. AO john3:16