According to the New York Police Department (NYPD) statistics, which cover crime in 2012 through the end of June, 96 percent of all shooting victims and 97 percent of all shooting suspects in the city were black or Latino, The Huffington Post reported on Friday .
The data also reveal that that more than 90 percent of New Yorkers stopped and frisked so far in 2012 were black and Latino.
The report comes as Eugene O'Donnell, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and a former NYPD officer and criminal prosecutor, has described it as an attempt by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly to defuse accusations that the NYPD subjects hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to unjustified searches each year on the basis of race.
"What they're trying to say is that it legitimizes the stop-and-frisk policy. That's what it's being used to do," O'Donnell said.
He further noted that the NYPD report, released this week, did not go into detail and contained no information showing the success or failure of the stop-and-frisk policy in gun crime reduction.
O'Donnell said the report could also feed false stereotypes that smear whole racial groups as being criminally inclined.
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