Latinos Disproportionately Stopped-And-Frisked In Jackson Heights

QUEENS -- The number of Latinos in the 115th Precinct targeted by the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program was more than three times the number of Latino suspects there in 2011, a new report from the NYPD shows. Statistics released by the NYPD show that the 115th Precinct, which encompasses Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst and part of Corona, also had the third-most stops overall in the entire city that year and the largest number of stops in Queens. In some ways, this is unsurprising: Latinos make up mo...