SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Police Misconduct, Highway Patrol, Racial Profiling

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

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: reading. 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 disproportionaltely 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) Non-bias mechanisms may produce appearance of racial disparity in stops. Race differences in driving behaviors, race differences in # of miles drive, 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 its not discrimination, just their demeanor!) Stops are tpically initated by speed detection: heuristic: mental shortcuts (also in race, deployment.