Following a week in which the United States reeled from the fatal police shootings of black men in Baton Rouge, La., and Falcon Heights, Minn., and the subsequent murder of five police officers in Dallas, Texas, the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) at John Jay College released on July 8 a new report in which it compares patterns of police stops and the use of force across 12 departments participating in the Center’s National Justice Database.
While noting that blacks are still more likely than whites to be targeted by force in the departments studied, the study found that racial disparities in police use of force are not linked to crime in some departments.
The report was presented at a convening of police chiefs, elected officials, researchers, and oversight practitioners at the Department of Justice in Washington DC for a conversation about race and policing in the United States. Click below to read the two parts of the report:
- The Science of Justice: Race, Arrests, and the Police Use of Force
- The Science of Justice: City Report
CPE President and Co-Founder Phillip Atiba Goff, Ph.D., co-authored the study with Tracey Lloyd, Ph.D., Research Associate in the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute; Amanda Geller, Ph.D., Director of the M.A. Program in Applied Quantitative Research at New York University; and Steven Raphael, Ph.D. and Jack Glaser, Ph.D., Professors of Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley. Goff is the Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
