"What's Behind Stop & Frisks? High Black Crime"

[PhilDernerJr]

An interesting article recently published in the New York Daily News about Al Sharpton's recent lawsuit against the city for its high amount of frisks by police on black people:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_o ... 7314c.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/495283p-417314c.html)

[Matt Molnar]

It's my understanding that the beef isn't only that blacks get stopped more when looking for specific perps, but that blacks are frisked much more often during random stops than whites are.

[cancidas]

i'd like to know, in how many of those stops by police did the person getting stopped give the cops a REASON to frisk them?

[Matt Molnar]

i'd like to know, in how many of those stops by police did the person getting stopped give the cops a REASON to frisk them?
Yes, and also how many of those frisks resulted in convictions for crimes.