Racial Profiling Case Study Answers
Ridgeway, G. & MacDonald, J. M. (2009). Doubly robust internal benchmarking and false discovery rates for detecting racial bias in police stops. American Statistical Association, 104(486), 661-668.
As the director of the Center on Quality Policing and assistant professor for the department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania, the authors of this article believe that through three methodologies of research, problem police officers can be flagged so that the issue of racial profiling can be addressed more appropriately. Ridgeway and MacDonald present data recovered from various studies which suggest that there is a problem of racially biased policing in many communities. With these efforts of research, …show more content…
departments can find liability risks like problems officers to prevent incidents before they happen. The authors explain methods of data collection and how they can be positively used to prevent further problems concerning racial profiling.
Pickerill, M.
J. & Mosher, C. (2009). Search and seizure, racial profiling, and traffic stops: A disparate impact framework. Law & Policy, 31(1), 11-30.
With a Ph.D in Political Science and a M.A, these two authors believe that the race of a person does not always have to be the deciding factor in search and seizures performed by the police. They begin by assessing whether or not police officers intentionally choose to search racial minorities over whites by analyzing data collected from every traffic stop made in the Washington D.C. area. What makes this article unique is that the authors write figure out when and why searches were conducted because in most studies of racial profiling these factors are often ignored.
Antonovics, K. & Knight, B. G. (2009). A new look at racial profiling: Evidence from the Boston police department. Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(1), …show more content…
163-177.
With a Ph.D from Brown and the associate Professor of Econmics and Public Policy, these two authors provide a new side of evidence on racial profiling using data on not only the race of the police officers but as well as the motorists. They developed a new method for distinguishing between different forms of discrimination against non white motorists. They want to prove that ultimately search decisions should be independent of race of the police officer because if searches occur more often when the race of the motorists is different than the race of the police officer, then this is evidence of preference-based discrimination. These authors provide some very compelling evidence that explains the difference between preference-based and statistical discrimination.
Wilkins, V. M. & Williams, B. N. (2008). Black or blue: Racfial profiling and representative bureaucracy. Public Administration Review, 68(4), 654-664.
These two authors are both assistant professors in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at respectful universities.
This article talks about the relationship between passive and active representation for race in police departments. Interviews with police officers reveal that many would agree that police socialization may have a detrimental effect on the integrity of a department. They have found through research that African American police officers struggle with the pressure to be accepted by their community and this affects their ability to work. This article is unique in that they talk about the idea that with the presence of black officers there tends to be an increase in racial
profiling.
Lange, J. E. & Voas, R. B. (2005). Testing the racial profiling hypothesis for seemingly disparate traffic stops on the New Jersey turnpike. Justice Quaterly, 22(2), 193-223. A lawyer in the litigation department and one of the most well respected traffic safety researchers in the country, these two authors write about two methods that will compare values to police stop data in hopes to asses and eventually stop racial profiling. However, this article does not study the usual ideas that are associated with racial profiling such as racial and ethnic distribution but rather the population of drivers and the population of traffic violators.
Hernandez, M. R. & Knowles, J. (2004). Racial profiling or racist policing? bounds test aggregate data. Internation Economic Review, 45(3), 959-989. A senior economist, this author examines data of search and seizures and compares them to the rate of success in these searches by summarizing statistics by race.
links: http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/2009/RAND_RP1394.pdf http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120835962/PDFSTART http://www.international.ucla.edu/cms/files/antonovics_knight.pdf http://www.pmranet.org/conferences/USC2005/USC2005papers/pmra.wilkins.williams.2005.pdf http://www.criminaljusticecoalition.org/files/userfiles/Testing_the_RP_Hypothesis.pdf http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118754025/PDFSTART
As the director of the Center on Quality Policing and assistant professor for the department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania, the authors of this article believe that through three methodologies of research, problem police officers can be flagged so that the issue of racial profiling can be addressed more appropriately. Ridgeway and MacDonald present data recovered from various studies which suggest that there is a problem of racially biased policing in many communities. With these efforts of research, …show more content…
departments can find liability risks like problems officers to prevent incidents before they happen. The authors explain methods of data collection and how they can be positively used to prevent further problems concerning racial profiling.
Pickerill, M.
J. & Mosher, C. (2009). Search and seizure, racial profiling, and traffic stops: A disparate impact framework. Law & Policy, 31(1), 11-30.
With a Ph.D in Political Science and a M.A, these two authors believe that the race of a person does not always have to be the deciding factor in search and seizures performed by the police. They begin by assessing whether or not police officers intentionally choose to search racial minorities over whites by analyzing data collected from every traffic stop made in the Washington D.C. area. What makes this article unique is that the authors write figure out when and why searches were conducted because in most studies of racial profiling these factors are often ignored.
Antonovics, K. & Knight, B. G. (2009). A new look at racial profiling: Evidence from the Boston police department. Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(1), …show more content…
163-177.
With a Ph.D from Brown and the associate Professor of Econmics and Public Policy, these two authors provide a new side of evidence on racial profiling using data on not only the race of the police officers but as well as the motorists. They developed a new method for distinguishing between different forms of discrimination against non white motorists. They want to prove that ultimately search decisions should be independent of race of the police officer because if searches occur more often when the race of the motorists is different than the race of the police officer, then this is evidence of preference-based discrimination. These authors provide some very compelling evidence that explains the difference between preference-based and statistical discrimination.
Wilkins, V. M. & Williams, B. N. (2008). Black or blue: Racfial profiling and representative bureaucracy. Public Administration Review, 68(4), 654-664.
These two authors are both assistant professors in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at respectful universities.
This article talks about the relationship between passive and active representation for race in police departments. Interviews with police officers reveal that many would agree that police socialization may have a detrimental effect on the integrity of a department. They have found through research that African American police officers struggle with the pressure to be accepted by their community and this affects their ability to work. This article is unique in that they talk about the idea that with the presence of black officers there tends to be an increase in racial
profiling.
Lange, J. E. & Voas, R. B. (2005). Testing the racial profiling hypothesis for seemingly disparate traffic stops on the New Jersey turnpike. Justice Quaterly, 22(2), 193-223. A lawyer in the litigation department and one of the most well respected traffic safety researchers in the country, these two authors write about two methods that will compare values to police stop data in hopes to asses and eventually stop racial profiling. However, this article does not study the usual ideas that are associated with racial profiling such as racial and ethnic distribution but rather the population of drivers and the population of traffic violators.
Hernandez, M. R. & Knowles, J. (2004). Racial profiling or racist policing? bounds test aggregate data. Internation Economic Review, 45(3), 959-989. A senior economist, this author examines data of search and seizures and compares them to the rate of success in these searches by summarizing statistics by race.
links: http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/2009/RAND_RP1394.pdf http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120835962/PDFSTART http://www.international.ucla.edu/cms/files/antonovics_knight.pdf http://www.pmranet.org/conferences/USC2005/USC2005papers/pmra.wilkins.williams.2005.pdf http://www.criminaljusticecoalition.org/files/userfiles/Testing_the_RP_Hypothesis.pdf http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118754025/PDFSTART