CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Police Misconduct, Highway Patrol, Racial Profiling
26 May 2016
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Misconduct takes away from the legitimacy they have in the community. Any action performed by law enforcement officer that is unethical, against established employment guidelines, unconstitutional. Driving while black: bias processes and racial disparity in police stops by patricia. Warren, donald tomaskovic-devey, william smith, matthew zingraff, and marcinda. Mason: are minority drivers disproportionately targeted by police officers, yes, minority citizens especially african americans. Does this automatically imply cops are racist? (perhaps other mechanisms operating to produce racial disparity) Race differences in driving behaviors, race differences in # of miles driven, other associated characteristics like ses, gender, age, that may be correlated with age) That it is not race, but some other factor, that causes racial differences in outcomes? (think black"s finding regarded demeanor and arrest for blacks it"s not discrimination, just their demeanor!) Model: x (independent vble) y (dependent vble, controlling for: driver"s race # stops last year by 1) state troopers and 2) local police.
