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On the recordMay 14, 2013
I think you are also familiar with the fact that according to the NYPD's own statistics, approximately 90 percent of the individuals who possibly had their Fourth Amendment rights violated because they were stopped, questioned, and frisked without reasonable suspicion or any basis to conclude that they presented a danger to anyone else, approximately 90 percent of these individuals did nothing wrong.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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Jeffries highlights racial profiling in NYPD's stop and frisk program affecting Black and Latino citizens.

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