Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race

ISBN-13: 9781108429313 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 292 str.

Frank R. Baumgartner; Derek A. Epp; Kelsey Shoub

Opis

The costs of racially disparate patterns of police behavior are high, but the crime fighting benefits are low.

Recenzje

'Suspect Citizens, written by a distinguished team of political scientists, delivers on that promise by providing an extraordinary study of racial profiling in North Carolina using the state's mandated traffic stop database. In the era of big data policing, Baumgartner, Epp, and Shoub demonstrate the value of data mining police practices to reveal racial disparities in 20 million recorded traffic stops between 2002 and 2016 … The book is an important historical and contemporary window into one state's experience with one of the so-called remedies advocated by social scientists, police practitioners, and politicians in the late 1990s to reduce racial profiling by the police.' Albert J. Meehan, American Journal of Sociology

Spis treści

1. Suspect citizens: fighting the war on crime with traffic stops; 2. A legislative mandate to address concerns about racial profiling; 3. Who gets stopped?; 4. What happens after a stop?; 5. Finding contraband; 6. Search and arrest patterns by officer and agency; 7. Profiling Hispanics, profiling blacks; 8. Black political power and disparities in policing; 9. Reforms that reduce alienation and enhance community safety; 10. Conclusions.