NYPD: 87% of People in "Stop-and-Frisk" Searches in 2009 were Blacks & Hispanics

According to the New York Post, the New York Police Department performed 575,304 "stop-and-frisk" patdowns in 2009, the most since they have started releasing the numbers in 2002.

The statistics support the claims of blacks and Hispanics are stopped by the police more than any other ethnic background. The report states that 55% of those stopped last year were black, 32% Hispanic, 10% white and three percent, Asian. The police also said the searches have yielded more than 7,600 weapons.