That position, reaching levels seen in 2001 during the administration of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, runs particularly strong among black New Yorkers, 80 percent of whom say the police favor one race over the other. A plurality of white residents — 48 percent — agree.
Concern about police favoritism comes at a time of widespread publicity over the department’s extensive practice of stopping, questioning and, in many instances, frisking people on the city’s streets. Last year, the police made nearly 700,000 stops; about 85 percent of the stops involved blacks or Hispanics.
