policy is not perfect, it's a legitimate police tactic that works. think progress points out, of the people that were stopped and frisked last year, a weapon was found 1.9% of the time. new data projects police officers could make 800,000 stops this year. that's more than twice the population of miami. 85% of those stopped were black or latino, even though those groups make up half of new york city's police population. in fact, the number of stop and frisk among young black men exceeds the city's population of young black men. bloomberg insists the nypd does not racially profile people and will not tolerate profiling. >> no person should ever be stopped because of race. stop should be based solely on suspicion of criminal activity and nothing short of that will be tolerated. so -- >> i'm joined now by donna lieberman, executive director of the new york civil liberties