Stop Me

As The Onion would say, Jesus Fucking Christ. 508,540 "forcibly stopped" by police in NYC in 2006.

Are we safe yet?

"The number was up from 97,296 in 2002, the last time the department divulged 12 months’ worth of data."

Yup - the year directly after 9/11, when we were all freaking out about terrorism in NYC, was less than 20% of the "forcible stops" from 2006. Christ.