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Dylan Matthews of the ''[[Washington Post]]'' said,

Dylan Matthews of the ''[[Washington Post]]'' said,

:"Stop, question and frisk" is an NYPD policy wherein police will detain and question pedestrians, and potentially search them, if they have a "reasonable suspicion" that the pedestrian in question “committed, is committing, or is about to commit a felony or a Penal Law misdemeanor."<ref name=wonk-matthews> [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/13/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-stop-and-frisk-and-why-the-courts-shut-it-down/ Here’s what you need to know about stop and frisk — and why the courts shut it down]</ref>

:"Stop, question and frisk" is an NYPD policy wherein police will detain and question pedestrians, and potentially search them, if they have a "reasonable suspicion" that the pedestrian in question “committed, is committing, or is about to commit a felony or a Penal Law misdemeanor."<ref name=wonk-matthews>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/13/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-stop-and-frisk-and-why-the-courts-shut-it-down/ Here’s what you need to know about stop and frisk — and why the courts shut it down]</ref>

==Proportionality dispute==

==Proportionality dispute==

[[RAND]] said,

[[RAND]] said,

:"the magnitude of the disparities was considerably less than the raw statistics indicate. For example, according to the raw statistics, white pedestrians were frisked in 29 percent of stops, but those white pedestrians stopped in circumstances similar to black suspects were frisked 42 percent of the time, slightly less than the rate for black suspects (45 percent)."<ref name=rand-stop-data> [http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9325/index1.html]</ref>

:"the magnitude of the disparities was considerably less than the raw statistics indicate. For example, according to the raw statistics, white pedestrians were frisked in 29 percent of stops, but those white pedestrians stopped in circumstances similar to black suspects were frisked 42 percent of the time, slightly less than the rate for black suspects (45 percent)."<ref name=rand-stop-data>[http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9325/index1.html]</ref>

:Over the years, researchers have proposed a range of standards against which to compare the race distribution of police stops. For instance, investigators have argued that with race-neutral policing the race distribution of police stops should match that of the residential population in the city, or the race of arrestees, or that of crime suspects. [http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR534.html#qa]

:Over the years, researchers have proposed a range of standards against which to compare the race distribution of police stops. For instance, investigators have argued that with race-neutral policing the race distribution of police stops should match that of the residential population in the city, or the race of arrestees, or that of crime suspects. [http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR534.html#qa]