Weitzer, Ronald

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“A majority of blacks and Hispanics—but just one-third of whites—believes that police provide ‘worse’ services to black and Hispanic neighborhoods… The majority of whites believe that police treat neighborhoods similarly."

“The [DOJ] reports demonstrate that officers frequently subjected [African Americans] to verbal abuse… Investigators found that officers' use of racially-charged language and crude jokes created a culture where blacks were dehumanized."

“Hispanics have a worse relationship with the police than whites but better than African Americans… Rather than a single ‘minority group’ orientation to the police, the general pattern is a racial hierarchy taking the form of a white/Asian/Latino/black continuum."

“Whites tend to stereotype black individuals and neighborhoods as crime-prone … [and] tend to equate black neighborhoods with poverty and high crime rates and white neighborhoods with affluence and low crime rate without considering low-crime, affluent black communities."