Studies

Research on racial bias in policing

“Four forces which provided comparable figures… all recorded disproportionately high numbers of stop and search conducted on children and young people from BME backgrounds… British Transport Police (BTP)… also indicated… BME groups being stopped disproportionately."

“This report demonstrates that the drug laws weigh particularly heavily on black and minority ethnic communities, doing more harm than good at a great cost to the public purse…Black people are also shown to be charged at a higher rate than white people for possession."

“Latinos who reported that ‘people like me’ are more likely to be stopped by police, arrested, or sent to prison were more likely than their counterparts to report poor self-rated physical health."

“By blaming… victims for their own fatal police shootings… we can rest assured that this shooting—and that shooting, and the next, and the next again, and so on—was because of this one bad actor… It lets us off the hook of confronting individual… racism."

"[Brazilian police in simulators] shot at black targets faster than at whites when they were armed, and had more difficulty (were slower) not to shoot blacks than whites when they were unarmed." & “There were no effects of the [police] participants' color."

“Police did change alongside changes in a neighborhood’s racial makeup and increases in real estate prices net of any changes in crime.” & “Net of crime…police made more order-maintenance… arrests underscoring policing’s role in early-stage urban ‘renewal.'” @BrendenBeck

“None of the Black males or females… were arrested as a result of their police contact, suggesting that… streets stops involving police use of force are not limited to Black residents engaged in criminal activity and… force used by police officers may be unnecessary."

“A father’s incarceration places adolescents and young adults similarly ‘at risk’ for increased delinquency and likelihood of arrest, regardless of race and ethnic classification… [but] Black and Hispanic youth remain much more likely to have an incarcerated father."

“Irrespective of differences in the assessment of perceived racism … the experience of racism among Black Americans is ubiquitous and is shown in this study to be associated with psychological distress” & “features associated with trauma."