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1 results foundAuthor: Coviello, Decio Title: An Economic Analysis of Black-White Disparities in NYPD's Stop and Frisk Program Summary: A model is introduced to explore the identification of two distinct sources of police bias in NYPD's "stop and frisk program:" bias at the level of the police officer making the stop decisions, and bias at the level of the police chief allocating manpower across precincts. Ten years of data from NYPD's "stop and frisk program" are analyzed in light of this theoretical framework. White pedestrians are found to be slightly less likely than African-American pedestrians to be arrested conditional on being stopped. We interpret this finding as evidence that the officers making the stops are on average not biased against African Americans relative to whites, because the latter are being stopped despite being a "less productive stop" for a police officer. We find suggestive evidence of police bias in the frisk decision. Further research is needed. Details: Unpublished paper, 2015. 54p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 12, 2016 at: http://nicolapersico.com/files/stopfrisk.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United States URL: http://nicolapersico.com/files/stopfrisk.pdf Shelf Number: 127656 Keywords: Racial BiaseRacial DisparitiesRacial Profiling in Law EnforcementStop and Frisk |