WATCH: The Daily Show wants to 'stop and frisk' Wall Street bankers

If you're not familiar with the tough-on-crime "stop and frisk" police tactic that's earning New York City special scrutiny from federal courts, The Daily Show's John Oliver has you covered. The policy has long divided New York, Oliver said on Tuesday's show, "with black and Latino residents of this city saying it's an invasion of their liberty and white residents saying: 'Oh, I think I heard a thing about that on NPR. Is that still happening?'"

Police have disproportionately stopped-and-frisked black (52 percent) and Latino (31 percent) New Yorkers over the past eight years, and only 6 percent of the millions of people stopped were even arrested, Oliver pointed out. To put this in perspective for white people and non-New Yorkers, Oliver likened Harlem and other primarily black areas of the city to an aggressive TSA checkpoint at the airport:

Correspondent Jessica Williams somehow managed to one-up Oliver. She reported "live" from "one of New York's most crime-ridden neighborhoods" — Wall Street — and gave a pitch-perfect defense of "stop and frisk" from an alternate universe in which the police care as much about white-collar crime as petty theft and small-time pot possession.

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