Racial Profiling: Confronting the Challenges of Vehicle Stop Data Analysis

Antony M. Pate, COSMOS Corporation
Lorie A. Fridell, Police Executive Research Forum

ABSTRACT
Responding to allegations of "racial profiling," many law enforcement agencies have begun to collect data on persons stopped by police in vehicles. They have discovered, however, that analyzing those data to produce meaningful results is very complicated . Approaching this problem from the perspective of inferring causality, the presenters will discuss the challenges in controlling for alternative explanations and some options available to departments to address these difficulties.

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