Meares, Tracey L.

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“When young people are repeatedly stopped by police they begin to experience all stops as unfair, regardless of the individual characteristics of those stops… [and] come to believe… that they have been targeted for an unlawful reason, like their race or gender."

"[In areas of NYC] 80% of young African American men… had been stopped … by police within the last year… If practice and law were reconciled, we would have to believe that the police reasonably believed that 80% percent of [AA] youth … were about to commit a crime."