SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deadly Force
16 Jan 2017
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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. Surveyed 1,522 metro toronto residents who identified as black (n=513), Blacks are 3 times more likely to experience multiple police stops and are 3. Is vicarious racial profiling common? times more likely to be searched during these stops as unfair. Blacks are 6 times more likely to have friends or family who were racially profiled. Deadly force is justified if an officer believes on reasonable grounds that such force is necessary for the preservation of his/her life or the lives of others in the encounter. 2004 beating of frank jude in milwaukee residents of black neighborhoods less likely to call 911, including to report violent crime. Experimental design, interested in proportion of applications that elicited callbacks. Ex-offenders are to 1/3 less likely to be considered for employment.
