Ferguson police searched Black people more but found contraband less often.

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 189 “Blacks were almost twice as likely to be searched as whites, even though the searches of blacks were less likely than whites to result in contraband being found (21% vs. 34%).” Dorothy A. Brown, “Ferguson’s Perfect Storm of Racism,” CNN, March 5, 2015. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1046

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Searched minority drivers yield contraband less often than searched Whites. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 365
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Searched minority drivers yield contraband less often than searched Whites. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 365

Broader Connections