Weaver, Vesla M.

3 entries found for Weaver, Vesla M.

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“The criminal justice system, we argue, slipped from one in which arrest was low and strongly linked to offending to one where a substantial share of Americans experienced arrest without committing a crime.” & “Furthermore, this decoupling became racially inflected."

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“In New York City… police stops of pedestrians increased from 90,000 to just under 700,000 between 2002 and 2011” & “Yet scores of studies revealed… high-volume stops and low-level arrests were weakly correlated with crime but showed a strong connection to race."

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“The mean stop rate… where more than half of the residents are black or Latino is 253 per 1,000… In majority-white areas [it] is strikingly lower at 92 per 1,000 residents.” & “Surplus [little evidence] frisks are… clustered in low-income and minority neighborhoods."

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