Twitter Users Share Tales Of Stop And Frisk With #MyBloombergStory

This was Padilla’s personal encounter with the city’s “stop-and-frisk” policy, a directive to police to stop, question and search suspicious people. It disproportionately targeted Black and brown teenagers and sowed major distrust between communities of color and law enforcement. It was also a major part of  Bloomberg’s legacy in the city; stop and frisk increased sevenfold under his tenure between 2002 and 2013. Under Bloomberg, stop and frisk reached its peak in 2011, when more than 685,000 people were stopped. According to the New York Civil Liberties Union, about 90% of stopped and frisked New Yorkers were found innocent.

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