Following the alarming revelations about the racial bias, misuse of force, and focus on revenue collection at the Ferguson Police Department, Vice collected data to see how the NYPD compares. Though the disproportionate targeting of minorities is not quite as skewed in New York as in Ferguson, the numbers aren't pretty:
[T]he Ferguson report found that black people make up 67 percent of the population and 93 percent of the individuals arrested by local cops. According to government statistics, African-Americans and Latinos make up about 54 percent of NYC's population, butaccountfor 84 percent of the people arrested by the NYPD. For young people, the disproportion in NYC is starker: Black and brown youth make up 94 percent of the "juvenile arrest population,"according to city stats. [Vice]
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