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Stop, question, and frisk (view source)
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, 15:29, August 27, 2013white pedestrians stopped in circumstances similar to black suspects were frisked 42 percent of the time, slightly less than the rate for black suspects (45 percent)
[[RAND]] said,
[[RAND]] said,
:"the magnitude of the disparities was considerably less than the raw statistics indicate. For example, according to the raw statistics, white pedestrians were frisked in 29 percent of stops, but those white pedestrians stopped in circumstances similar to black suspects were frisked 42 percent of the time, slightly less than the rate for black suspects (45 percent)."<ref name=rand-stop-data> [http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9325/index1.html]</ref>
:Over the years, researchers have proposed a range of standards against which to compare the race distribution of police stops. For instance, investigators have argued that with race-neutral policing the race distribution of police stops should match that of the residential population in the city, or the race of arrestees, or that of crime suspects. [http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR534.html#qa]
:Over the years, researchers have proposed a range of standards against which to compare the race distribution of police stops. For instance, investigators have argued that with race-neutral policing the race distribution of police stops should match that of the residential population in the city, or the race of arrestees, or that of crime suspects. [http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR534.html#qa]