According to data released earlier this week, New York City police officers stopped more people on the streets during the first three months of 2008 than during any quarter in the six years the Department has reported the data.
In 2007, the NYPD stopped about 469,000 New Yorkers - almost 1,300 people every day. Though they make up only a quarter of the City's population, more than half of those stopped were black. Another 30 percent were Latino. Though whites make up more than 35 percent of New York City's population, they were only 11 percent of those stopped. In 2006 and 2007, blacks and Latinos were the target of about 90 percent of the nearly one million stop-and-frisk encounters.
The announcement will come at 1 p.m. today.
