The New York City Police Department is on pace to stop, question, and/or frisk about 50,000 New Yorkers this year, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton said Monday, which represents a significant drop from last year.
"This year, as of today, we’ve done about 45,000, so we’ll probably end the year with about 50,000,” Bratton told The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin at the American Justice Summit at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, according to Capital New York. “It'll be down about 75 percent from what it was last year.”
In 2013, there were just over 190,000 police stops, and that itself was a precipitous drop from the nearly 700,000 police stops that occurred in 2011, when the NYPD's use of the practice peaked.