Philadelphia Police Department- Little Progress Since Stop And Frisk Outlawed [picture]
Four years after agreeing to submit to federal court monitoring of its controversial stop-and-frisk program, the Philadelphia Police Department has made little progress toward curbing unwarranted stops that disproportionately target minorities, according to an analysis filed Tuesday by a group of civil rights lawyers.
The report found that 37 percent of the more than 200,000 pedestrian stops made by police in 2014 were done without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity – down from 47 percent from in 2012.
And although blacks and Hispanics make up 54 percent of the city’s population, more than 80 percent of all stops involved minority targets, the report stated.Read more
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