Analysis on the Relationship between Racial Makeup and Coercive Police Action: A focus on NYPD
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This study analyzed the New York Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practice based on the assumption that racial minorities in a White-majority borough are more likely to be stopped-and-frisked because of their out-of- context presence, but such stops or frisks lead to low ratios of arrest or seizure. Using the NYPD Stop, Question, and Frisk Database 2006 and applying multinomial logistic regression, this study aimed to identify the relationship between the demographic characteristics of boroughs and the coercive behaviors of the NYPD, independent of crime rates and socioeconomic status in boroughs. The results showed that minorities in Staten Island, a White-majority borough, are more likely to be stopped, frisked, and found with contraband, but less likely to be arrested than Whites in the borough. The findings suggest that the NYPD should endeavor to recognize the racial disparity in their stop-and-frisk practice, initiate an extensive monitoring system on officers’ stop-and-frisk behavior, and encourage their officers to fight against unconscious stereotypes, instead of accommodating such stereotypes.
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This study analyzed the New York Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practice based on the assumption that racial minorities in a White-majority borough are more likely to be stopped-and-frisked because of their out-of- context presence, but such stops or frisks lead to low ratios of arrest or seizure. Using the NYPD Stop, Question, and Frisk Database 2006 and applying multinomial logistic regression, this study aimed to identify the relationship between the demographic characteristics of boroughs and the coercive behaviors of the NYPD, independent of crime rates and socioeconomic status in boroughs. The results showed that minorities in Staten Island, a White-majority borough, are more likely to be stopped, frisked, and found with contraband, but less likely to be arrested than Whites in the borough. The findings suggest that the NYPD should endeavor to recognize the racial disparity in their stop-and-frisk practice, initiate an extensive monitoring system on officers’ stop-and-frisk behavior, and encourage their officers to fight against unconscious stereotypes, instead of accommodating such stereotypes.
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