An Economic Analysis of Black-White Disparities in NYPD's Stop and Frisk Program / Decio Coviello, Nicola Persico.

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Coviello, Decio

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TextSeries: Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ; no. w18803.Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.Description: 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white)Subject(s):

K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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Abstract: We 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. We 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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February 2013.

We 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. We 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.