Oakland police show racial disparities across every interaction stage

Evidence

As part of a collaboration with the Oakland Police Department (OPD), my colleagues and I conducted a statistical analysis of 28,000 OPD pedestrian and traffic stops. We found a consistent pattern of racial disparities across the entire course of the police-community interaction, from an officer’s initial decision to stop a person to subsequent decisions to search, handcuff, and arrest that person (Hetey, Monin, Maitreyi, & Eberhardt, 2016a). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 358

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the reader’s interest in measured bias vs conviction: this documents disparities persisting through stop, search, handcuff, and arrest decision points, giving an empirical base for bias-detection research.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 358