The NY Times had something about profiling and the frisking of people not accused of any crime by the cops. The author was defending the policy. Anyway, I thought folks here might be interested in the crime statistics:

"Such stops happen more frequently in minority neighborhoods because that is where the vast majority of violent crime occurs — and thus where police presence is most intense. Based on reports filed by victims, blacks (23% of the population) committed 66 percent of all violent crime in New York in 2009, including 80 percent of shootings and 71 percent of robberies. Blacks and Hispanics together accounted for 98 percent of reported gun assaults. And the vast majority of the victims of violent crime were also members of minority groups.

Non-Hispanic whites (35%), on the other hand, committed 5 percent of the city’s violent crimes in 2009, 1.4 percent of all shootings and less than 5 percent of all robberies."

The link is here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/opinion/26macdonald.html?scp=2&sq=heather%20mac%20donald&st=cse

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