2003

7 entries found for 2003

“These patterns suggest a strong likelihood that racial/ethnic bias plays a role in traffic stop policies and practices in Minnesota. The same is true for the searches that result from these stops… It is fair to conclude that the problems that they suggest are not isolated to a handful of jurisdictions."

“Consistent with the racial-threat hypothesis, cities with a higher proportion of Black residents had a higher number of police-caused homicides.” & “Measures of minority representation [on police forces] had no significant influence on levels of police violence."

“Procedural fairness, or treating people with respect and in an unbiased fashion, does not depend on crime rate fluctuations. Rather, it depends on the behavior of the police themselves… Need to acknowledge the basic dignity and rights of citizens."

Black women are disproportionately strip searched by customs agents (and otherwise over-represented in law enforcement suspicion) due to the intersection of criminal and hyper-sexualized stereotypes.

“People in the community used to think it was going to be great when Blacks and gays and women are in the force. [But they were] teaching that institutional loyalty over personal integrity. If people show moral courage, we don’t give them awards. We … call them ‘rats.'"

“The police tend to concentrate on factors that have little to do with the presence of drugs in a car. Most importantly, the police focus on African American men and Hispanic men despite the fact that white men, and even white women, are more apt to have drugs in the car."