A new report finds the New York City Police Department’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” policy has yielded a conviction rate of just 3 percent. The report by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman reviewed 2.4 million stops between 2009 and 2012. Overall, just 0.1 percent of those stops resulted in a conviction for a violent crime. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled stop-and-frisk unconstitutional in August, but an appeals court stayed the ruling last month and removed her from the case. Newly elected Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed to drop the city’s appeal of Scheindlin’s ruling.
Report: 97% of NYPD “Stop-and-Frisks” Yielded No Conviction
HeadlineNov 15, 2013