I do not subscribe to stereotypes. But if there is a stop and frisk program then the % is correct. The argument can be made that this program should be stopped due to the high price of violating the rights of the innocent.
The intent of the stop and frisk is to deter citizens from carrying weapons and illegal drugs, not to find them with the illegal items. Some argue that if the program is stopped then the criminals will be embolden to carry illegally concealed weapons and drugs and crime would revert back to the Dinken days.
Were you not a racist idiot your argument would have been that clearly most of those stopped and frisked would be either black, or hispanic young men, BUT the huge numbers of stops and frisks, coupled with the low rate of weapon seizures and arrests would suggest that this tactic is overused.
Understand also that many of the 10% who are arrested are becasue of small quantities of weed. Not because they are being arrested for committing any specific crime. If the cops stopped every white male kid in NYC the arrest rates of white males will be much higher if whites were arrested for drug possession at the same rate of blacks and hispanics.
BTW among the candiadtes for mayor ONLY John Liu says that stop and frisks ought to be stopped. The man is a pathetic loser who is pandering to get votes.
Bill Thompson and Bill DeBlasio state trhat stop and frisk is a valid tool, but that it is being OVERUSED. These two men collectively have way more support among blacks and hispanics than does John Liu, so their opinion more accurately reflects what most black and hispanics feel.
Especially the females, who being mothers, but also prime targets of criminals (both directly as females and if their sons get shot), have a nuanced view of this topic. As indeed a mother of a murder victim told Bloomberg when he tried to use her to justofy his excessive use of this tactic. She told Bloomberg about the trauma that her son had gone through when stopped by cops, prior to being shot by a gang banger.