Racial Profiling and the NYPD : The Who, What, When, and Why of Stop and Frisk

• Main Author: Newberry, Jay L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Police.; Sociology, Urban.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319580913
• Physical Description: XI, 77 p. 6 illus. in color. online resource.

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 peri...