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Suspect Citizens
Frank R. Baumgartner
Derek A. Epp
Kelsey Shoub
其他書名
What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2018-07-10
主題
Law / General
Law / Criminal Law / General
Law / Discrimination
Political Science / General
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Law Enforcement
Political Science / American Government / General
Social Science / General
Social Science / Minority Studies
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Discrimination
ISBN
1108429319
9781108429313
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GgpaDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. From the beginning, police agencies made it clear that very large numbers of police stops would have to occur before an officer might interdict a significant drug shipment. Unstated in that calculation was that many Americans would be subjected to police investigations so that a small number of high-level offenders might be found. The key element in this strategy, which kept it hidden from widespread public scrutiny, was that middle-class white Americans were largely exempt from its consequences. Tracking these police practices down to the officer level, Suspect Citizens documents the extreme rarity of drug busts and reveals sustained and troubling disparities in how racial groups are treated.