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October 12, 2011

Dozens protest NYPD stop and frisk policy

By  The Associated Press / Associated Press


NEW YORK — Dozens of demonstrators [organized by Make the Road NY] lined up near City Hall to protest the police department's stop, question and frisk policy.

The protesters sang along with musicians playing guitar as microphones amplified the sound on Broadway in downtown Manhattan Wednesday. The group says the policy unfairly targets black and Hispanic men.

The police stopped more than 500,000 people last year, mostly minorities, with about 10 percent of the stops resulting in arrests.

Department officials say the policy is a life-saving, necessary crime-fighting tool, especially in communities disproportionately affected by crime and especially among young men of color who last year represented 90 percent of murder victims and 96 percent of shooting victims in the city.

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