Beschreibung:
The costs of racially disparate patterns of police behavior are high, but the crime fighting benefits are low.
1. Suspect citizens: fighting the war on crime with traffic stops; 2. A legislative mandate to address concerns about racial profiling; 3. Who gets stopped?; 4. What happens after a stop?; 5. Finding contraband; 6. Search and arrest patterns by officer and agency; 7. Profiling Hispanics, profiling blacks; 8. Black political power and disparities in policing; 9. Reforms that reduce alienation and enhance community safety; 10. Conclusions.