The New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy came under attack this week from city council members considering four laws that would restrict the encounters and create the post of an inspector general to monitor the practices, according to an article from Bloomberg.
Police stopped 685,724 people they deemed suspicious on streets in 2011, of whom 84 percent were black or Hispanic, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based nonprofit that, in 2008, filed a civil-rights suit in Manhattan against the NYPD for the tactic, Bloomberg reports.