Ray Kelly: By NYPD’s Count, African-Americans Are Being ‘Understopped’
In an interview on ABC’s Nightline last night, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly elaborated on a point Mayor Michael Bloomberg made in a speech this week, about the racial breakdown of stop-and-frisks conducted by city police officers.
Bloomberg said NYPD critics are unfairly compare the number of black and Latino men stopped to the number of black and Latino men in the general population, whereas they should be comparing the numbers of stops to the descriptions of suspects.
Kelly, in his interview, said that if you use that methodology, “African-Americans are being understopped.”
A year ago, Kelly went even further, telling reporters people in “communities of color” actually “want more” stop-and-frisks.
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