WSN: “Study finds blacks, Hispanics more likely to be stopped on drug suspicion”

From the NYU student newspaper, Washington Square News: Study finds blacks, Hispanics more likely to be stopped on drug suspicion by Ashley Steves:

A possible arrest for drug possession might have just as much to do with one’s race as it does with potential illegal activity.

According to a report by the New York Civil Liberties Union and Harry Levine, a sociology professor at Queens College, black and Hispanic citizens are more likely to be pulled over for suspicion of illegal drugs by the New York Police Department than white or Asian citizens.

An ongoing federal lawsuit was filed in 2008 by the Center for Constitutional Rights after it analyzed six years of the NYPD’s data and found that almost 150,000 stops were made without reported justification.