What is the importance of New York City in the book, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap?

While Wall Street billionaires were playing with other people’s money, the NY Police Department was following a policy known as “stop-and-frisk.” Minority neighborhoods were targeted and their residents were profiled, arrested, framed and brought up on bogus charges like riding a bike on the sidewalk, loitering or obstructing pedestrian traffic.