Studies

Research on racial bias in policing

“Whites (2%) were less likely than blacks (4%) or Hispanics (3%) to experience threats or use of force.” & “In 2018, blacks and Hispanics (5% each) were more likely than whites (2%) or persons of other races (2%) to experience at least one type of force during their most recent contact with police."

“Despite official policies to address implicit biases, both gender and racial stereotypes continue to impede Canada’s efforts to adequately address radicalization into, and disengagement from, extremist violence."

“Participants of Color perceived both over-, in terms of excessive use of force, and under-policing more strongly than Whites."

“The University of Chicago’s approach to improving its landscapes and making the university spaces legible and attractive to students and faculty have relied and continue to rely on tactics of racialised policing to sanitise the greater Hyde Park neighbourhood."

“The ‘high crime neighborhood’ language once again deceptively suggests that the police’s program of spatial confinement and control over minority neighborhoods is really about crime interdiction. However, decades of studies have shown that ‘high crime neighborhood’ is merely a proxy for poor minority neighborhood."

“Meticulous research has uncovered the insidious routes the legacies of slavery, Jim and Jane Crow, and segregation have taken to maintain White supremacist power, all while under the guise of being post-racial. Research has also revealed how police departments across the country have been enforcers of that hidden code."

“In 2018, Louisville’s Metro Government’s ‘Vision Russell’ initiative was able to leverage funding … to increase surveillance… This expanded police power … resulted in a sharp increase in public nuisance cases, with 84% of those in Louisville’s predominantly Black western half."

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