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“Whites’ fear of crime increase linearly as the relative size of the black population increases [which, for minority black areas, is then]… translated into additional police officers… These findings emerge net of a wide array of control variables."

Racial Context and Police Force Size: Evaluating the Empirical Validity of the Minority Threat Perspective Racial Context and Police Force Size: Evaluating the Empirical Validity of the Minority Threat Perspective
Racial Context and Police Force Size: Evaluating the Empirical Validity of the Minority Threat Perspective
American Journal of Sociology
Stults, Brian J. / Baumer, Eric P.
Vol. 113 Issue 2, pp. 507–546, 2007
10.1086/518906
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