Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

An economic analysis of black-white disparities in NYPD's stop and frisk program / Decio Coviello, Nicola Persico.

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Canadian Policing Research

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1 online resource (28 pages)

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Author(s) affiliated with: Decio Coviello - Institute of Applied Economics; Nicola Persico - Kellogg School of Business.

Summary

The authors analyze data on NYPD's "stop and frisk program" in an effort to identify racial bias on the part of the police officers making the stops. They find that the officers are not biased against African Americans relative to whites, because the latter are being stopped despite being a "less productive stop" for a police officer.

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Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ; no. 18803.

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