Stop-And-Frisks Plummeted 60 Percent In 2013 - Amid Lawsuits, Protests and Public Scrutiny

Silent march to end stop and frisk and racial profiling, New York
City - June, 2012 (Photo by Long Island Wins)

By Aviva Shen
Amidst intense scrutiny and a bevy of civil rights lawsuits, the New York Police Department drastically reduced its use of the controversial stop-and-frisk practice in 2013. Newly minted Police Commissioner William Bratton announced Wednesday that recorded stops dropped 60 percent, from more than 533,000 in 2012 to 194,000 in 2013.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) vehemently condemned stop-and-frisk during the election, and Bratton vowed to scale back his predecessor’s program. With the new numbers out, Bratton argued that the stop-and-frisk problem has “more or less been solved.”

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