Why does the New York Stop and Frisk law target African Americans or Hispanics? With the statistical research that has been done, it has targeted about 53 percent of African Americans, 31 percent of Hispanics, and 10 percent of Whites in the year of 2012. The New York Stop and Frisk is a biased law and violates our constitutional rights of all men are created equal. The law was made from the Supreme Court case of Terry v. Ohio which was argued from 1967 to 1968. In 2011, about 684,000 were stopped and a vast majority of these people were African Americans and Hispanics. The Stop and Frisk Law was designed to keep criminals off the streets and to prevent them from doing any type of harm to the people. When some person gives suspicious behavior