THE NYPD RACIALLY PROFILE BLACKS & LATINOS & USE ILLEGAL STOP & FRISK TACTICS!

The NYPD stopped and questioned more people in 2009 than in any year since the department began reporting the data, it was revealed Tuesday.

A total of 575,304 people were stopped and questioned in 2009 - an 8% increase over the previous high of 531,159 in 2008, the NYPD said Tuesday.

The stops have increased dramatically in recent years, prompting civil rights groups to charge the NYPD with aggressively promoting racial profiling.

Cops made fewer than 400,000 stops in 2005.

The NYPD was required under a 2001 law to report data on those stopped, questioned and frisked.

Of those stopped in 2009, roughly 57% were frisked, 6% were arrested, and another 6.2% received summonses. Blacks and Latinos were the subject of roughly 87% of the stops in 2009.