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Stopped 685,724, a 600% increase since 2002. the first year of michael bloomberg's tenure as mayor of new york city. during his ten-year tenure in office, the number is 10.4 million. what was the number one reason? furtive movements which accounted for more than 50% of the stops. furtive, fly, shifty, sort of how trayvon martin was acting on the night he was shot and killed? make no mistake there, is a definite racial component of those stops, 52.9% were black. 33.7% were latino, 9.3% were white. the numbers flip when looking at the city's overall population. only 25.5% of the population is bl...
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