A new report shows that the NYPD subjected over 168,000 African-American men between the ages of 14 and 24 to “stop and frisk” searches last year. That’s about 10,000 more searches than the total number of young black men in that age range living in New York. I’d expect a statistic like this to appall most reasonable people – but not, apparently, New York’s deputy mayor (and sometime music blogger) Howard Wolfson, who tweeted today that politicians who oppose stop and frisk seek “a race to the left and a return to high crime.” Huh? I traded a few tweets with Wolfson on this subject; I’ll leave it to you to decide who’s on sounder ground here.