Politikal Satires

think-progress:

TODAY: A huge crowd protested stop and frisks in NYC. 

Just one reason why people are protesting:  85 percent of those stopped last year were black or Hispanic, even though those groups make up about half of NYC’s population. 

There are 9 other need-to-know facts on the policy.

In 2011, NYC officers made 685,724 stops as part of the “stop-and-frisk” policy. Of that group, 605,328 people were determined not to have engaged in any unlawful behavior. [NYCLU]