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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."
Police Are Our Government: Politics, Political Science, and the Policing of Race–Class Subjugated Communities
Annual Review of Political Science
Vol. 20 Issue 1, pp. 565–591,
2017
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