Racial stop disparities hold even in precincts with few minority residents

Evidence

The New York Civil Liberties Union’s (NYCLU) analysis of the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) stop-and-frisk rates in 2012 found that although young Black and Latino males made up only 4.7 percent of NYC’s population, they accounted for 40.6 percent of stops (NYCLU, 2013). Even in the majority of the ten precincts with the lowest representation of African American and Latino residents in the city (comprising between 8 percent and 14 percent of the population), more than 70 percent of stops were of African Americans and Latinos. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 360

Categorization

• XREF: Weakens the ‘going where the crime is’ account — relevant to how threat-based justifications diverge from measured outcomes.
• 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…, 360