The Syracuse Police Department said a four-year study’s finding that a higher percentage of black citizens were stopped, searched and let go than white citizens is accurate but unavoidable…Barrie Gewanter, director of the Central New York Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said she feared the study did not address the underlying reasons for people of all races being stopped by police. It did not study the level of suspected crime that resulted in people being stopped and how those levels differed between race. For example, the findings combined arrest and ticket data. In reality, a citizen handed a ticket is much different than someone arrested for a crime, she said. But Gewanter said the study is a useful start. “This is really, really important data,” she said. “We can’t only be looking at it once, or in one way.