Gaston, Shytierra

5 entries found for Gaston, Shytierra

“Police killings of unarmed Blacks and unarmed Hispanics have a significant, positive effect on Black homicide changes.” & “The actual killings of unarmed civilians … and not just the public’s protest against them, drive the effect [of increased homicides]."

“Black drug arrests are likelier in predominantly White … neighborhoods. Unlike their White counterparts, … Black drug offenders [don’t] travel to White neighborhoods to engage in drug offending… Officers' raised suspicion of Blacks in White areas…"

“Unlike arrests for Whites, officers reported a larger and varied set of factors that motivated their contacts and eventual arrests of Blacks.” & “They invoked case law to justify these stops and surveillance on a lower legal basis than that for Whites."

“Black Americans were grossly over-represented in … Newark’s drug arrests. When controlling for legally relevant factors … Black arrests reflected racialized policing. … [and] increased in communities with greater White … populations."

“Officers used neighborhood conditions and prior knowledge of problem areas to justify detaining otherwise law-abiding Black citizens.” and “The pronounced pattern of arbitrary pedestrian stops … is suggestive of racially biased policing."