SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Canadian Studies, Use Of Force Continuum
27 Oct 2016
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Police intelligence gathering policy that involves stopping, questioning, and documenting individuals. Police perspective proactive community engaged crime prevention. Critics" perspective primarily targets black citizens, racial profiling. Wortley and owusu-bempah surveyed 1,522 metro toronto residents who identified as either black, chinese, or white: they were asked four questions: In canada, we do not collect a lot of data on race, so this is one of the rare canadian studies done on a topic like this. Blacks are 3x as likely to experience multiple police stops and are 3x as likely to be searched during these stops: they are also more likely to interpret these stops as unfair. Blacks are 6x more likely to have friends or family members who were racially profiled. Thus, there is some empirical evidence to support the claim that random police checks can be an issue because of the high frequency in which black people are carded.
