Racial Profiling and the NYPD (eBook)

The Who, What, When, and Why of Stop and Frisk

Jay L. Newberry (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XI, 77 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-58091-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book analyzes New York City's stop-and-frisk data both pre- and post-constitutionality ruling, examining the existence of both profiling and unequal treatment among the three largest groups identified in the database: Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics. The purpose for using these two time periods is to determine which group(s) benefited the most from the ruling. This research goes beyond standard statistics to identify the place that race holds in contributing to the stop disparities. Specifically, this research will adds a spatial element to the numbers by analyzing the determinants of stop location by race, applying a principal component analysis to a mixture of census and stop-and-frisk data to determine the influence of location on stops by race. The results present a way of determining the plausibility of stops being the product of racial profiling-or just a matter of happenstance.

Jay L. Newberry is Assistant Professor of Geography at Binghamton University

Inhalt

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsiiList of TablesvList of FiguresvINTRODUCTION1Progression of Text4Importance of this Work6Bibliography6CHAPTER ONE: IN THE SHADOW OF LADY LIBERTY8The Legal Basis for Stop-and-Frisk9Darker Days in The Big Apple13The Stop-and-Frisk Credit Contradiction14The Brownsville Blitz16Bringing up the Numbers17Bibliography19CHAPTER TWO: BROKEN WINDOWS OR BREAKING COMMUNITIES22Criticisms of Broken Windows24Breaking Windows and the Quality of Life25Policing the Community or Policing for the Community28Bibliography36CHAPTER THREE: THE IMPACT OF BROKEN WINDOW ON POLICE PRACTICES IN NEW YORK CITY38The Trends40The Constitutionality Challenge42The Cause?43Bibliography45CHAPTER FOUR: ANALYTICAL METHODS47Analytical Methods49The Principal Component Analysis49The PCA Data and Procedures50The Data Envelopment Analysis52The Location53Bibliography54CHAPTER FIVE: ANALYTICAL RESULTS56The Principal Component Analysis Dimension Extraction Results56PCA Regression Results for 201257PCA Regression Results for 201459The Data Envelopment Analysis Results60Group Efficiency Results60Borough Level Efficiency63The Best and the Worst Precincts63CHAPTER 6: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION65Discussion66Stop-and-Frisk Environments68Stop-and-Fisk Efficiency71Conclusion72Bibliography75Index76

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 77 p. 6 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Applied GeographY • criminal justice • Geography • Geography of Policing • Geography of Social Control • Police and Space • policing • Race and Place • Race, Ethnicity, and Place • Stop-and-frisk policy • urban and regional planning • Urban Geography • urban studies
• ISBN-10: 3-319-58091-4 / 3319580914
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-58091-3 / 9783319580913