NYPD’s ‘Stop and Frisk’ Doesn’t Fight Crime or Get Guns Off the Street, Study Reveals

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The NYPD loves to tout crime fighting as its rationale for randomly harassing African-American and Latino men, but  a new report from DNAinfo  reveals that the stop and frisk program hasn’t increased the number of guns seized by police. In fact, the number of guns seized by police has dropped since the program was instituted:

During the past two years alone, the number of firearms seized by police has fallen 13.5 percent from 3,908 in 2009 with 510,742 frisks, to 3,443 last year, when the NYPD stopped and frisked a record-busting 685,724 New Yorkers.And last week the NYPD reported that during the first half of this year, firearm seizures continues to fall to 1,613, compared to 1,705 during the first six months of last year. 

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