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“Even when controlling for relevant factors such as self-reported offence or drug use and alternative explanations, such as presence in the street, we can document that ethnicity still matters for explaining the probability of the most intrusive of these police powers” & “In fact, ethnicity seems to matter more than self-reported offending behaviour for explaining the probability of being stopped and searched."

Police-Initiated Contacts: Young People, Ethnicity, and the “Usual Suspects” Police-Initiated Contacts: Young People, Ethnicity, and the “Usual Suspects” Table 2: results from logistic regression models Table 2: results from logistic regression models Even when controlling for relevant factors such as self-reported offence or drug use and alternative explanations, such as presence in the street, we can document that ethnicity still matters for explaining the probability of the most intrusive of these police powers; in fact, ethnicity seems to matter more than self-reported offending behaviour for explaining the probability of being stopped and searched. Even when controlling for relevant factors such as self-reported offence or drug use and alternative explanations, such as presence in the street, we can document that ethnicity still matters for explaining the probability of the most intrusive of these police powers; in fact, ethnicity seems to matter more than self-reported offending behaviour for explaining the probability of being stopped and searched.
Police-Initiated Contacts: Young People, Ethnicity, and the “Usual Suspects”
Policing and Society
Medina Ariza, Juan José
Vol. 24 Issue 2, pp. 208–223, 2014
10.1080/10439463.2013.784301
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