2010

13 entries found for 2010

“Overall, the third and most important story the data tell is that police-reported driving while Black data underestimate the frequency with which police stop drivers of color."

“When exploring police attitudes about whether a goal of the police should be to reduce the public’s fear of crime, the results show that Black officers answered more positively than White officers."

“People of color who are mentally ill, or whose mental situation is unstable, are at greater risk of being subjected to police brutality.” & “Depending upon the racial identity of the suspect… police appear to forgo the medical modality in favor of criminal… modalities."

“We found… that high-risk Black girls were more likely to ‘get caught’ for their antisocial behavior, but were not more likely to actually engage in antisocial behavior as compared to their White counterparts."

“Even though ‘race’ may overlap to a considerable degree with class and residential area, the survey data … show that … the experience of African Americans with police stops, frisks, and street interrogations cannot be explained by ‘class.'"

“An extremely high proportion of Sub-Saharan African respondents were stopped for questioning during the last 12 months in Ireland (59%)” & “Interviewees lived in neighbourhoods that were described by interviewers as not particularly poor compared to other areas of the city”

Europe: “Minority respondents were more likely than majority respondents to be stopped when on public transport or on the street… Every second minority victim of assault… did not report… because they were not confident the police would be able to do anything about it."

“The perpetrator’s skin tone … significantly affected evidence judgments. Participants who saw the photo of the perpetrator with a dark skin tone judged ambiguous evidence to be significantly more indicative of guilt than participants who saw … a lighter skin tone."

“African Americans and other disadvantaged minorities are highly unlikely to be charged with such white collar crimes as antitrust or corporate wrong-doing."

In a study of French police recruits, find that (1) police recruits were more prejudiced and authoritarian than non-police—a selection effect, and (2) officers with one year of training were more prejudiced than new recruits—a socialization effect.

“While most of our respondents said that police occasionally spoke harshly to them, they reported that officers were more apt to direct demeaning and offensive language toward blacks. For example, black study participants said that officers frequently used racial slurs."

“Studying race entails more than exposing moments of bias; it also entails examining which behaviors are criminalized, how broad discretionary powers reflect and reinforce racial power, … and why the rallying call to ‘law and order’ … in the post–civil rights era."

“The targeting of [marijuana] enforcement efforts toward blacks and Hispanics is dramatically out of proportion to national statistics that suggest comparable usage rates across racial groups."