CHICAGO – Race and gender have a profound effect on how police interact with civilians, and white officers use force more often and make more arrests, especially when interacting with Black people, according to a new study of police officers in Chicago.
Researchers analyzed a trove of data on Chicago police and found white police officers make more stops, more arrests and use force more often than Black and Hispanic officers facing similar situations. Male officers take those enforcement actions more often than female officers, and the trends were more pronounced when white officers interacted with Black people.
The study by researchers affiliated with Columbia University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California-Irvine,
published in the journal Science on Thursday, suggests diversity reforms in police departments may improve officers' treatment of minority communities.
Authors of new study of data on the Chicago Police Department suggest increasing diversity may be an effective police reform strategy.
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I thought that Blacks were more violent than whites. Not always I guess