The New York Police Department’s skyrocketing street stops unfairly target blacks and Hispanics and the policy must be retooled, city officials said yesterday.
On the same day the New York Civil Liberties Union released an analysis of last year’s 685,000 stops, Bill de Blasio, the city’s public advocate, announced a campaign to pressure Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reform the practice. De Blasio said the mayor should require police brass to keep close watch and make sure unwarranted stops are not occurring.
