NYPD cops stopped and frisked a record 171,000 people — mostly black and Hispanic — during the first three months of the year, the department said yesterday.
It’s an 18 percent rise over the 145,098 stop-and-frisks in the same period last year and is the highest since the NYPD began collecting such data in 2003, the New York Civil Liberties Union said.
Of the total, 89,000 were black and 56,000 were Latino. The NYCLU said 90 percent of the stop-and-frisks resulted in no charges or citations. The NYPD said the number is “not unreasonable.”
Cops are handing out cards in three high-crime precincts — Brooklyn’s 75th, The Bronx’s 44th and Manhattan’s 32nd — explaining why people have been stopped and frisked.