According to the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), the police stopped New Yorkers 532,911 times in 2012. 89% of those were innocent, 55% were black, 32% were Latino and 10% were white.

If a police officer stops you but does not have a search warrant, you can say “I do not consent to this search.” The police can’t arrest you for this.  The officer might still proceed with the search, but verbally stating your refusal will protect your rights if you have to go to court.

According to a recent study done by the NYPD, stop-and-frisk has been proven useless.

"Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office reviewed data from 2.4 million stops that took place between 2009 and 2012 and found that out of the 150,000 arrests that resulted from those stops, only 1.5% of them ended in jail sentences and only 0.1% of those arrests ended in convictions for violent crimes.