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“In Brownsville, Brooklyn, from 2006 to 2010, within a perimeter of about eight blocks, the New York [PD] made 52,000 stops, with less than 1 percent of stops resulting in an arrest… Young African American males overwhelmingly bore the brunt of these policies.” @CarlaShedd

What About the Other 99%? The Broader Impact of Street Stops on Minority Communities What About the Other 99%? The Broader Impact of Street Stops on Minority Communities The example of Brownsville, Brooklyn, illustrates that the issue is about more than just race in our current so-called post-race era. Indeed, we must acknowledge that it is race combined with gender, age, demeanor, and place that determines who is—and is not—ensnared in New York City’s ever-expanding web of police control. The fact that only 1 percent of Brownsville residents are arrested after being stopped, questioned, and frisked should have us all concerned about the impact of this kind of policing on the remaining 99 percent who are also subjected to this extremely invasive and overtly criminalizing experience. And the surveillance does not end there. The example of Brownsville, Brooklyn, illustrates that the issue is about more than just race in our current so-called post-race era. Indeed, we must acknowledge that it is race combined with gender, age, demeanor, and place that determines who is—and is not—ensnared in New York City’s ever-expanding web of police control. The fact that only 1 percent of Brownsville residents are arrested after being stopped, questioned, and frisked should have us all concerned about the impact of this kind of policing on the remaining 99 percent who are also subjected to this extremely invasive and overtly criminalizing experience. And the surveillance does not end there.
What About the Other 99%? The Broader Impact of Street Stops on Minority Communities
Key Issues in the Police Use of Pedestrian Stops and Searches: Discussion Papers from an Urban Institute Roundtable
Shedd, Carla
(Nancy La Vigne, Pamela Lachman, Andrea Matthews, S. Rebecca Neusteter, eds.), pp. 24–29, August 2012
https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/25781/412647-Key-Issues-in-the-Police-Use-of-Pedestrian-Stops-and-Searches.PDF
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