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“Policing of blacks has been disproportionately aggressive for crimes associated with high levels of police discretion… Racial profiling [is] not limited to…unwarranted searches, but extend[s] to a higher propensity to arrest blacks given a marginal amount of evidence."

Case Dismissed: Police Discretion and Racial Differences in Dismissals of Felony Charges Case Dismissed: Police Discretion and Racial Differences in Dismissals of Felony Charges
Case Dismissed: Police Discretion and Racial Differences in Dismissals of Felony Charges
American Law and Economics Review
Tomic, Aleksandar / Hakes, Jahn K.
Vol. 10 Issue 1, pp. 110–141, 2008
10.1093/aler/ahn006
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