And in New York, newly released statistics show the city’s police stopped and frisked over 500,000 individuals on the streets last year. That is an average of nearly 1,400 stops a day. It is over five times the number of stops reported in 2002. Civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton accused the police of racial profiling and is threatening to sue the city. Eighty-five percent of the individuals stopped by the police were either African-American or Latino.