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Assessing the Fairness and Effectiveness of Bicycle Stops in Tampa
Police Quarterly ( IF 3.200 ) Pub Date : 2018-06-09 , DOI: 10.1177/1098611118781344
Ojmarrh Mitchell 1 , Greg Ridgeway 2, 3
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This research investigates the fairness and effectiveness of making a large number of bicycle stops as a proactive policing strategy designed to reduce unsafe riding and crime in Tampa, Florida. Public concern about the fairness and effectiveness of this tactic was magnified by a 2015 newspaper article that noted racial disparities in bicycle stops by the Tampa Police Department (TPD). Our analyses found that there are large racial disparities in bicycle stops, which cannot be explained by differences in ridership as measured by our benchmark, bicycle crashes with injury. The observed racial disparities in bicycle stops appear to be attributable to TPD’s crime control efforts, though we cannot rule out some racial bias. Given that crime control was a motivating factor for TPD’s use of bicycle stops, we assessed the effect of bicycle stops on crime using a natural experiment. We found that bicycle stops did not have a meaningful effect on crime.

中文翻译:

评估坦帕市自行车停靠站的公平性和有效性

这项研究调查了将大量自行车停下来作为一种积极的警务策略的公平性和有效性,该策略旨在减少佛罗里达州坦帕市的不安全骑行和犯罪。2015年的一篇报纸强调了坦帕警察局(TPD)在自行车停靠站上的种族差异,这加剧了公众对该策略的公平性和有效性的关注。我们的分析发现,自行车停靠站存在很大的种族差异,这不能由我们的基准骑行事故造成的伤害来解释。尽管我们不能排除种族偏见,但在自行车停靠站上观察到的种族差异似乎可归因于TPD的犯罪控制工作。鉴于犯罪控制是TPD使用自行车停靠站的动力,我们使用自然实验评估了自行车停放对犯罪的影响。我们发现,自行车停泊处对犯罪没有产生有意义的影响。
更新日期:2018-06-09
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