CNN CNN Newsroom March 18, 2013 18:14:00
Huge court battle for mayor bloomberg and the new york police department begins today. nope, not talking cigarettes and not talking about the big gulp. talking about the racist tactic of police stopping and questioning and sometimes even frisking anyone they deem suspicious. it's called stop and frisk. take a look at this. there have been about 5 million stops in the last decade. and more than half, 52%, are black. 32% hishispanic. 11% white. critics say the practice is unconstitutional, they say police are racially profiling minority, citing the population breakdown. blacks and hispanics are ...