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Policy is not perfect, it's a legitimate price 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 officers could make 8,000 stops this year. 85% of those stopped were black or latino, even though the 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 stoppe...

Get them off the street. the left hates that. hates it. because it is racial profiling. but it's really criminal profiling. >> to hear bill o'reilly tell it, stop and frisk not only works, it makes sense. but the numbers don't lie. stop and frisk, a policy that gives new york city police officers the authority to stop and search people they consider suspicious disproportionately affects young black and latino men. now major michael bloomberg is defending the controversial strategy. >> there's no denying -- takes guns off the streets and save lives. to borrow a phrase from president clinton, i ...