After the traffic stops : officer characteristics and enforcement actions.

Author(s)
Close, B.R. & Mason, P.L.
Year
Abstract

This study examines the relationship between officer characteristics and racially biased policing. In particular, we explore the relationship between the officer’s race/ethnicity and the nature and extent of excessive enforcement actions by race. The authors derived an efficient enforcement action theorem which suggests that if public safety is the sole concern of police agencies, then racially and ethnically biased policing will not be a persistent element of police practice. Alternatively, this political economic model suggests that police apply more severe sanctions against other-group drivers. These results show that the race and ethnicity of officers have a significant and substantive impact on the intensity of enforcement actions by the Florida Highway Patrol against stopped drivers. (Author/publisher)

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20101817 ST [electronic version only]
Source

B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 6 (2006), No. 1 (January), Article 24, 41 p., 22 ref.

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