Too many innocents harassed by NYPD's "Stop and Frisk" practices

On the afternoon of Sept. 16, 2011, 20-year-old Cory Bennett walked out of a building on E. 175th St. in the Bronx and was immediately stopped by two cops.

The officers wanted to know what Bennett had been doing inside. They asked him for identification. Bennett, who was newly arrived in the city from Georgia, told them he lived upstairs with his grandparents. He was rushing to pick up a sandwich he’d ordered by phone from the deli across the street, he said, and had forgotten his ID in the apartment.

The cops could have taken a moment to walk upstairs with him to confirm his story. Or they could have checked at the deli.

But Bennett was just another young black man in the Bronx in the era of mushrooming stop and frisk. That year alone, 685,000 New Yorkers were stopped by police, most of them black and Latino. Ninety percent of those stops resulted in no arrest.

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you are not black or hispanic so you will never understand

try driving on NJ turnpike and be black

you get stop for DWB

have you driven on Pike. who always on side of road?

why does it seem that way?