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==Proportionality dispute==

==Proportionality dispute==

Critics of the NYPD stop-question-frisk policy claim that since blacks are stopped twice as often (and whites one third as often), the policy is discriminatory. That is the chief reason given by a judge in August 2013 before the city council voted to create an inspector general to oversee the program.

Critics of the NYPD stop-question-frisk policy claim that since blacks are stopped twice as often than their representation in the census (and whites one third as often), the policy is discriminatory. That is the chief reason given by a judge in August 2013 before the city council voted to create an inspector general to oversee the program.

Supporters of the policy cite statistics like the following, which suggest instead that blacks are being stopped significantly less often than their crime rate warrants:

Supporters of the policy cite statistics like the following, which suggest instead that blacks are being stopped significantly less often than their crime rate warrants: