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“The use of arrest data as the denominator for racial profiling statistics was mostly popular among conservative journalists and pundits for a short time… Since a police ‘stop’ is often a precursor to an arrest, arrest records may be racially skewed."

Racial Bias in Policing: Why We Know Less Than We Should

Social Issues and Policy Review

Atiba Goff, Phillip / Kahn, Kimberly Barsamian

Vol. 6 Issue 1, pp. 177–210, 2012

10.1111/j.1751-2409.2011.01039.x

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