Institutional Racism

NEW YORK (AP) — Police officials were not concerned with whether patrol officers were saving lives or helping people under a policy that required them to detain and sometimes search anyone they deemed suspicious. They were focused on one thing: numbers, according to a New York City police officer testifying in a federal challenge to some street stops.

Adhyl Polanco said his superiors told him that he needed 20 summonses, five street stops and one arrest per month. It didn't matter whether the stops were done properly, he said.