Stop And Frisk Analysis

The implementation tactics of the stop and frisk policy is racially discriminatory because the number of members of the minority group stopped by a police exceeded the number of whites. Racially discriminatory enforcement of the stop and frisk policy is also a risk factor for the well-being of the society as it promotes prejudice against a certain group of individuals within the criminal justice system. As Gelam et al. (2007) raised the issue of geographic heterogeneity that was found in their analysis of stop-and-frisk. They questioned the legitimacy of the criteria the police used for determination before a stop that caused unjustified disparate impact among the racial demographic of the stop-and-frisk. Goel et al. (2015) investigated the …show more content…
One of the hypotheses that this paper will be proposing is that police officers will perform unreasonable stop-and-frisks if he is racially biased against the suspect he has stopped. The independent variable would be the race of the potential suspect stopped by the police, as the attitude and the amount of force used by the police will change depending on the racial characteristics of the suspect. The dependent variable could be measured by examining the UF-250 stop-and-frisk form which contains various aspects of the stop, the race of the suspect, and suspected crime, the time and location of the stop, and the rational for the stop. Despite the fact that racial characteristic is a significant determinant of a stop, age and the condition of a neighborhood can also be significant determinants of a stop. Younger minorities males are constant targets of a stop-and-frisk because they are perceived to be more dangerous and violent as to older minorities males and to white males. Also, the condition of a neighborhood is another constant variable that may affect the observed outcome. If the neighborhood is a poor and high crime area, then, the polices may feel more threatened compare to those who