In a Brooklyn Law Review article entitled Stop and Frisk City, Fallon (2013) writes, “...as a result [of the ambiguity of lower courts’ decisions on stop and frisk], there are few checks on the tremendous discretion given to the NYPD in the stop and frisk context. In 2012 alone, ‘New Yorkers were stopped by the police 532,911 times. 473,644 were totally innocent (89%), 284,229 were Black (55%), 165,140 were Latino (32%)…
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