Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Nomentatus 3358 days ago
While I doubt it's quite as "black and white" as the article insists, there's no doubt about differential enforcement: "The racial disparity persists even after controlling for precinct variability and race-specific estimates of crime participation.[6][7] Research suggests that stop-and-frisk had few effects, if any, on crime in New York City.[8][9]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...