Over 74% of People Stopped & Frisked in 70th Precinct in 2011 Were Black

The NYPD has released statistics on “reasonable suspicion” stops (more popularly known as stop and frisk) in 2011, broken down by precinct and then by race. A total of 685,724 stops were made in New York City — 53.1% of those stopped were black, 33.9% were Hispanic, 9.4% were white, and 3.6% were Asian/Pacific Islander.

Those stops “equated to less than one stop per police officer per week among the 19,600 officers on patrol during the period,” Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Paul Browne explained in an email.

You can see the details from our 70th Precinct above. Of the 12,304 stops that were made (the 7th busiest precinct for stops in Brooklyn), 32.9% of them were made for suspicion of robbery (iPhones, maybe?). 74.6% of the total people stopped in our precinct were black, 17.2% were Hispanic, 5.1% were white, and 3% were Asian/Pacific Islander.

Those numbers are disproportionate to some of the residential population numbers in the area, which is 38.1% white and 36.6% black. They match up slightly better to known crime suspects, though — 70.2% of which are black, 12.9% white.

We’ve previously seen that stop and frisks in 2011 got about half a dozen guns off our streets, though this report doesn’t go into detail on that. It also doesn’t say how many of these stops resulted in arrests.