The folks who are against this practice in NYC describe a practice that sounds more random than a Terry stop — no “reasonable suspicion based on specific articulable facts” is present, so they say. That doesn’t mean they’re telling it like it is, though.
The recipients of Terry stops may claim that they are random, the NYPD says they are not.
The numbers suggest that time and resources are not available for random searches - there are probably not enough police to make it through all the searches that have a reasonable basis, let alone inventing excuses for extra searches.
Anyone who has mastered grammar school math should be able to work this out.
The ACLU has been fighting against the NYPD doing systematic Terry stops since Giuliani was elected the first time.
After two decades of courts upholding the Constitutionality of NYPD procedures, Eric Holder has decided to intervene and take up the jihad against the NYPD.
On a per capita basis, Holder's people are known to kill people at 10x the frequency of non-Hispanic whites. Would they lie? Nosirreebob - they're straight shooters, one and all. Stone killers some of them might be, but they draw the line at lying.