Police officers pulled vehicles over nearly 675,000 times in 2022 — on par with the number of street stops during the height of the stop-and-frisk controversy that raged more than a decade ago, according to NYPD statistics.
The newly released data, the first-ever year-end accounting of NYPD vehicle stops, indicate the race of drivers stopped and if they were searched, summonsed or arrested. The data show Black drivers were pulled over the most.
The NYPD made 673,120 vehicle stops last year, including 61,025 at vehicle checkpoints, the stats reveal. Of the total stops, 77% of them, or about 518,000, involved a summons issued to the driver. Arrests were made in a little more than 2% of the stops, about 15,000. Searches were conducted in about 13,000 of the stops.
