Analysis of Racial Disparities in the New York City Police Department's Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices

by Ridgeway, Greg

• ISBN13: 9780833045157
• ISBN10: 0833045156
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-25
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

Raw statistics for encounters between New York City police officers and pedestrians suggest large racial disparities. 89 percent of 2006 stops involved nonwhites. The New York City Police Department asked RAND to help it understand this and identify recommendations for addressing potential problems. RAND researchers analyzed 2006 pedestrian-police encounters, finding small racial differences in rates of frisk, search, use of force, and arrest.

Table of Contents

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Introduction: Review of the New York City Police Department's Stop, Question, and Frisk Policy and Practices	p. 1
Description of the 2006 Stop, Question, and Frisk Data	p. 7
External Benchmarking for the Decision to Stop	p. 13
Internal Benchmarking for the Decision to Stop	p. 21
Analysis of Post-Stop Outcomes	p. 31
Conclusions and Recommendations	p. 43
Details of Statistical Models Used in the External-Benchmark Analysis	p. 47
Details of Propensity-Score Weighting	p. 49
Estimating False Discovery Rates	p. 51
Unified Form 250: Stop, Question, and Frisk Report Worksheet	p. 53
References	p. 57
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