The Legal Aid Society condemned the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for conducting, according to data released by the NYPD itself, 2,451 more stop-and-frisk procedures in 2019 than it conducted in 2018 – an increase of 22 percent. A staggering 90 percent of those stops involved New Yorkers of color. Additionally, 65 percent resulted in neither an arrest nor the issuance of a summons, according to the New York Daily News.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who campaigned on a promise to end stop-and-frisk, has repeatedly claimed that the practice is no more. However, the City’s own data confirms just the opposite.

“This data confirms what we hear from our clients on a daily basis — despite court rulings that the city’s practices were unlawful, aggressive stop-and-frisk has made a comeback in New York City. This is an alarming trend at the beginning of Commissioner Dermot Shea’s tenure, but not surprising as he is a long-time champion of discredited broken windows policing,” said Corey Stoughton, Attorney-in-Charge of the Special Litigation Unit with The Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Defense Practice.