Wolfe, Scott E.

3 entries found for Wolfe, Scott E.

“Minority communities may provide officers an implicit visual heuristic that they can expect to encounter dangerous and uncooperative residents… Officers may be implicitly interpreting Black neighborhoods as inherently dangerous and uncooperative."

“Most [police officers in] our sample believed that there has been a war on cops in recent years” & “Although recent analyses suggest that widespread increases in violent crime or assaults on police officers have not occurred to date."

“Police agencies in Missouri have indeed changed their behavior regarding traffic stops in the post-Ferguson era, most likely as a result of the intense public scrutiny… Yet, such a pullback in police activity has not led to more crime."