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. >> reporter: a rookie cop was shot by a suspect in bed-stuy a month ago. >> is it locked, though? >> yeah, i'm going to check it. >> reporter: most dangerous hours, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods. why would you possibly want that job? >> because it's about giving to the community. i want people to know that they're safe. >> reporter: i've been talking to a handful of these young guys who feel like they get stopped over and over again, and they're just going back and forth to the gym or to school. >> the guy who is saying that to me, are the right guys getting stopped. they might say that to make me feel bad for stopping them. i find the guys i stop have lengthy arrest records. maybe i didn't catch them at the time of the crime but they are criminals. >> reporter: keyshan harley has never been in legal trouble, but he says police have stopped him more than 100 times. >> i first got stopped and frisked when i was 13. they said i fit a description. i would say nine times out of ten that's the excuse they give me. what's the description? young, black male, 18 to 25. >> report
. >> reporter: a rookie cop was shot by a suspect in bed-stuy a month ago. >> is it locked, though? >> yeah, i'm going to check it. >> reporter: most dangerous hours, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods. why would you possibly want that job? >> because it's about giving to the community. i want people to know that they're safe. >> reporter: i've been talking to a handful of these young guys who feel like they get stopped over and over again, and they're...
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. >> reporter: a rookie cop was shot by a suspect in bed-stuy a month ago. >> is it locked, though? >> yeah, i'm going to check it. >> reporter: most dangerous hours, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods. why would you possibly want that job? >> because it's about giving to the community. i want people to know that they're safe. >> reporter: i've been talking to a handful of these young guys who feel like they get stopped over and over again, and they're just going back and forth to the gym or to school. >> the guy who is saying that to me, are the right guys getting stopped. they might say that to make me feel bad for stopping them. i find the guys i stop have lengthy arrest records. maybe i didn't catch them at the time of the crime but they are criminals. >> reporter: keyshan harley has never been in legal trouble, but he says police have stopped him more than 100 times. >> i first got stopped and frisked when i was 13. they said i fit a description. i would say nine times out of ten that's the excuse they give me. what's the description? young, black male, 18 to 25. >> report
. >> reporter: a rookie cop was shot by a suspect in bed-stuy a month ago. >> is it locked, though? >> yeah, i'm going to check it. >> reporter: most dangerous hours, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods. why would you possibly want that job? >> because it's about giving to the community. i want people to know that they're safe. >> reporter: i've been talking to a handful of these young guys who feel like they get stopped over and over again, and they're...
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. >> i was picking up my kids from a relatives house in bed-stuy.me out of nowhere and surround my vehicle. he says i'll help you out. i'll put my light on. my twin daughters were sleeping in the car. they said what was the reason for pulling me over? no reason. >> the commanders encouraged aggressive policing by holding cops accountable for the number of arrests they make and tickets they write. >> everything is numbers based. every aspect is given in value. >> it is called com-stat meetings. it was started in the 1990s in bratton's first stint as commissioner. >> if a precinct is not doing well, we summons a bunch of people. we arrest people in that area. summons must be written. arrests must be made. a lot of my fellow officers will say i have ruined job applications and i have ruined this guy's life all because he needed a number. >> are there quotas for the police officers? >> the unions have advocated that for years. cops were being pushed to behavior inappropriately to a quota system. i dispute some of that. what i'm dealing with is a long-ti
. >> i was picking up my kids from a relatives house in bed-stuy.me out of nowhere and surround my vehicle. he says i'll help you out. i'll put my light on. my twin daughters were sleeping in the car. they said what was the reason for pulling me over? no reason. >> the commanders encouraged aggressive policing by holding cops accountable for the number of arrests they make and tickets they write. >> everything is numbers based. every aspect is given in value. >> it is...
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. >> reporter: the rookies go out in groups of three or four, on to the streets of bed-stuy. the crime rate in this community is falling but remains among the highest in the city. on their third day on the job, many of them are still getting to know the community. >> most of these cops are not from brooklyn, you know what i'm saying? so, therefore, it takes them a minute to acclimate themselves to the community. >> adjust to the community. >> adjust to the community. >> [ bleep ]. >> get the feeling not everybody likes us? >> i came from the type of environment where we were on this side of the street and cops were on the other side. now it's time for us to get together as a community. you see, walking around is not everything. what's important for them to do is speak to people, get to know the people that they're going to be protecting. >> it's not about arrests and summons. it's about interacting and let them know that we're people. we're here to help them out. >> reporter: before the federal ruling, rookie cops were the ones making most of the unjustified stops. o the supe
. >> reporter: the rookies go out in groups of three or four, on to the streets of bed-stuy. the crime rate in this community is falling but remains among the highest in the city. on their third day on the job, many of them are still getting to know the community. >> most of these cops are not from brooklyn, you know what i'm saying? so, therefore, it takes them a minute to acclimate themselves to the community. >> adjust to the community. >> adjust to the community....