- Title Pages
- Introduction
- Overview
- Introduction to Part I
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Chapter 1 A Sketch of the Policeman’s Working Personality -
Chapter 2 Driving While Black -
Chapter 3 The Stories, the Statistics, and the Law -
Chapter 4 Legitimacy and Cooperation -
Chapter 5 Race and Policing in Different Ecological Contexts -
Chapter 6 Racially Biased Policing - Introduction to Part II
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Chapter 7 Methods for Assessing Racially Biased Policing -
Chapter 8 Using Geographic Information Systems to Study Race, Crime, and Policing -
Chapter 9 Beyond Stop Rates -
Chapter 10 State of the Science in Racial Profiling Research - Introduction to Part III
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Chapter 11 Driving While Black -
Chapter 12 Citizens’ Demeanor, Race, and Traffic Stops -
Chapter 13 Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited -
Chapter 14 Community Characteristics and Police Search Rates -
Chapter 15 Blind Justice -
Chapter 16 Race, Bias, and Police Use of the TASER - Introduction to Part IV
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Chapter 17 Space, Place, and Immigration -
Chapter 18 Revisiting the Role of Latinos and Immigrants in Police Research -
Chapter 19 New Avenues for Profiling and Bias Research -
Chapter 20 Preventing Racially Biased Policing through Internal and External Controls -
Chapter 21 Democratic Policing -
Chapter 22 Moving Beyond Profiling - About the Contributors
- Index
Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited
Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited
The Demography and Logic of Proactive Policing in a Safe and Changing City
- Chapter:
- (p.309) Chapter 13 Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited
- Source:
- Race, Ethnicity, and Policing
- Author(s):
Jeffrey A. Fagan
Amanda Geller
Garth Davies
Valerie West
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
This chapter examines the development of “order maintenance policing” in New York City. It studies the stop-and-frisk activities of New York City police officers by examining temporal and spatial patterns of stops from 1999, 2003, and 2006. Findings reveal that stop rates have increased by 500 percent since 1999 despite little change in crime rates Stop activity was greatest in poor and minority communities, and stop patterns were more closely tied to demographic and social conditions than to disorder or crime. The efficiency of stops, measured as “hit rates,” dropped considerably, with the sharpest declines occurring in minority neighborhoods. Overall, the findings illustrate that the racial-spatial concentration of excess stop activity threatens to undermine police legitimacy and diminish the social good of policing, while doing little to reduce crime or disorder.
Keywords: order maintenance policing, New York City, stop-and-frisk, New York City police, stop activity, crime, minority communities, hit rates, police legitimacy
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- Title Pages
- Introduction
- Overview
- Introduction to Part I
-
Chapter 1 A Sketch of the Policeman’s Working Personality -
Chapter 2 Driving While Black -
Chapter 3 The Stories, the Statistics, and the Law -
Chapter 4 Legitimacy and Cooperation -
Chapter 5 Race and Policing in Different Ecological Contexts -
Chapter 6 Racially Biased Policing - Introduction to Part II
-
Chapter 7 Methods for Assessing Racially Biased Policing -
Chapter 8 Using Geographic Information Systems to Study Race, Crime, and Policing -
Chapter 9 Beyond Stop Rates -
Chapter 10 State of the Science in Racial Profiling Research - Introduction to Part III
-
Chapter 11 Driving While Black -
Chapter 12 Citizens’ Demeanor, Race, and Traffic Stops -
Chapter 13 Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited -
Chapter 14 Community Characteristics and Police Search Rates -
Chapter 15 Blind Justice -
Chapter 16 Race, Bias, and Police Use of the TASER - Introduction to Part IV
-
Chapter 17 Space, Place, and Immigration -
Chapter 18 Revisiting the Role of Latinos and Immigrants in Police Research -
Chapter 19 New Avenues for Profiling and Bias Research -
Chapter 20 Preventing Racially Biased Policing through Internal and External Controls -
Chapter 21 Democratic Policing -
Chapter 22 Moving Beyond Profiling - About the Contributors
- Index
