Objectives:

An initial investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) found that the Newark Police Department (NPD) had engaged in a “pattern or practice” of constitutional violations with regard to stop and arrest practices, prompting the city to enter a consent decree.

Methods:

This study draws on official event-level data on FIs recorded by NPD officers (N = 50,322) and uses random effects panel regression models to examine how socioeconomic characteristics interact with the implementation of the consent decree at micro places in the short term.

Results:

Spatial analyses indicate a concentration of FI encounters. The implementation of the consent decree coincided with improvements in the quality of data collected by officers conducting FIs of citizens. It was also associated with decreased rates of reported FIs for the city’s Black and Latino citizens relative to their share of the local population, and patterns of FI encounters.

Conclusions:

Newark’s consent decree improved the quality of data collection. However, the spatial concentration of reported FIs and subsequent arrest of Black and Latino individuals have not experienced the same effect as they presumably require a culture change that is likely to necessitate a longer time frame to manifest.

中文翻译：

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微观场所的种族分歧：纽瓦克同意令对实地调查的影响的前/后分析（2015-2017）

目标：

司法部 (DOJ) 的初步调查发现，纽瓦克警察局 (NPD) 在拦截和逮捕行为方面存在违反宪法的“模式或做法”，促使该市签署同意令。

方法：

本研究利用 NPD 官员 (N = 50,322) 记录的关于 FI 的官方事件级数据，并使用随机效应面板回归模型来研究短期内社会经济特征与微型地方同意令的实施之间的相互作用。

结果：

空间分析表明 FI 遭遇的集中。同意令的实施恰逢进行公民金融调查的官员收集的数据质量有所提高。它还与该市黑人和拉丁裔公民报告的 FI 率相对于他们在当地人口中的比例下降以及 FI 遭遇模式有关。

结论：

纽瓦克的同意令提高了数据收集的质量。然而，报告的 FI 的空间集中以及随后对黑人和拉丁裔个人的逮捕并没有经历同样的影响，因为他们可能需要文化变革，而这可能需要更长的时间框架才能体现出来。