NYPD’s
stop-and-frisk program has been a “failure”, according to Zead Ramadan, CAIR’s
board president in New York City.
The NYPD’s
stop-and-frisk program “has not brought down the rates of murders of New York
City,” Ramadan said in phone interview with Press TV on Sunday.
“So this policy is a failure,” Ramadan
said, adding, “All it is doing is targeting children of color and
underprivileged communities.”
About 684,000
people were stopped in 2011. According to NYPD statistics, over 80% of those
stopped have been completely innocent. The vast majority of these people were
African-American or Latino.
Thousands of New
Yorkers planned to march in silence down Fifth Avenue on Sunday to demand an end
to the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk program, which the protesters
say disproportionately targets black and Latino males.
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