“Incidents with white statutory rape victims had higher arrest odds irrespective of the offender’s race, whereas incidents with minority race/ethnicity victims tended to have fewer arrests."
When police respond to domestic violence calls, “where both parties in the couple were White, the odds of arrest decreased by just less than .8 times."
“The black-on-white homicide rate is a significant predictor of officer-involved killings whereas black-on-black homicides and measures for political and economic threat are unrelated to police killings… consistent with a body of … evidence of police discrimination."
“The findings suggest that when African American police executives reach the very pinnacle of their careers and are at the most public of positions, they experience dramatically increased resistance from whites about their commands."
“Compared to other women, Black rape survivors are judged as less truthful and more to blame for their rapes. Black rape survivors are also less likely to seek supportive interventions and to disclose or report their rapes."
“Camera-friendly policing suggests that raising police visibility may not reveal undisciplined police work, but offer the police a sophisticated mechanism with which to conceal undisciplined police work… to act more disciplined.
“Racial factors demonstrably influenced rape judgments… Participants judged women raped interracially as more blameworthy than those raped intraracially. Men recommended harsher sentences for Black … strangers. Racism scores positively predicted men’s victim blaming."
“Racist ideologies and the ideology of individual responsibility thus enjoy a symbiotic relationship, together forming a worldview in which racial disparity in incarceration is explicable, justifiable, and necessary."
“In this book African-American police officers provide much evidence of everyday racism in the routine operation of policing… The racial hostility and discrimination … are commonplace, recurring… and damaging to… both officers and civilians."