SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Racial Profiling, Hamilton Police Service, Robert Wilkins

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Scott Brandon

Document Summary

Intensified surveillance without probable cause on the basis of race. Officers use race (not behavior) as grounds for suspicion/surveillance. Encounters that are police initiated (proactive) only these circumstances where they can act in a racial profiling behavior. This excludes calls for service, stops where suspects matches description. Discovered in 1993. (this was done before this year but it emerged around this time period) Black attorney in middleton who got pulled over and believe this is when. Public opinion and driving while black they used racial profiling for the fist time. (robert wilkins & maryland state police) Extensive research by police and academics followed through mid 90"s to. Under pressure, us police departments began collecting traffic stop data. Scholars used existing data or collected their own. They decided they were going to compare census data in certain areas. (stop rates compared to census data) this is an intuitive approach.