{"id":216,"date":"2019-04-30T23:25:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T23:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/data\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2020-06-09T12:43:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:43:49","slug":"fix-the-system","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/data\/fix-the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix the System"},"content":{"rendered":"

Criminal Justice in the 21st Century<\/h3>\n
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Less than a decade ago, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stopped and frisked almost 700,000 <\/strong>people in a single year. The overwhelming majority of them were Black and Latinx New Yorkers who had done nothing wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s, the City’s jail population was over 20,000<\/strong>. Most of those people were charged with minor crimes and could not afford even a small amount of bail.<\/p>\n

And just 8 years ago, the justice system sent more than half a million<\/strong> people to criminal court for quality of life offenses. That\u2019s well over 1,500<\/strong> criminal summonses every day.<\/p>\n

Today our stop and frisk rate is reportedly down by 98%<\/strong>. Our jail population is almost a third of what it was. And criminal summonses for offenses like drinking in public are down 96%<\/strong> from where they were less than a decade ago.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve made great strides, but the profound injustices of those practices continue to haunt us.<\/p>\n

Our jail population in New York City right now is 87%<\/strong> percent Black and Latinx. 81%<\/strong> of people prosecuted for crimes in New York City are Black and Latinx. 88%<\/strong> of those who are stopped and frisked are Black and Latinx.<\/p>\n

The policies of stop and frisk, broken windows, and mass incarceration have turned our criminal justice system into a system of injustice for poor people of color and had a profound and long-lasting impact.<\/p>\n

New York City is the safest big city in the country and we did this while moving away<\/strong> from these practices. We will continue to do move forward with a holistic approach that will keep crime down and keep all<\/strong> communities safe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n