Cincinnati Police Department traffic stops applying RAND's framework to analyze racial disparities /

In 2002, the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) joined with other agencies and organizations to improve police-community relations in the city. This report focuses on the analysis of racial disparities in traffic stops in Cincinnati. The authors find no evidence of racial differences between the sto...

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Auteur principal: Ridgeway, Greg, 1973-
Collectivité auteur: ebrary, Inc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, Center on Quality Policing, 2009.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Is there a department-level racial pattern in initiating vehicle stops?
  • Do individual officers appear to have racial biases in their decisions to stop?
  • Are there racial disparities in the outcomes of stops?
  • Conclusions and implications
  • Appendixes: A. Details of the propensity-score weighting approach
  • B. Estimating false-discovery rates
  • C. Detailed tables for post-stop outcomes
  • D. Comments from the parties on the report.