I haven’t read this yet. I’d be interested in knowing how they acquired the officer’s visual knowledge of the suspect pre-stop through a questionnaire or on a stop report.
Most officers are moving in traffic so it would be more difficult for them “to see” from behind a car seats headrest in the rear and if it was in oncoming traffic, the car would be noticed in a moving violation before the driver. If they are parked to stop speeders, then they would have a better view of the driver, but in town cops don’t set up speed traps as much as they used to, that’s left more for state troopers now and days. However, they would “see” if they first ran the plates and the plates were owned by a black driver, particularly a driver on probation or parole. Isn’t it part of police procedure to run plates first thing?
That is not true when taking a studies intent and methodology into consideration, its not difficult to omit important deciding factors as to the nature of what appears to be a disparity when it is less evidenced or completely omitted.
You have brought up racism perpetrated by whites in our nation’s past and also used it as a means by which to imply that due to our history of prejudice, it continues today across the spectrum of the criminal justice system from prejudiced police intent through prejudiced sentencing.
You so badly want them to be targeted unduly and treated unfairly, but they are not and just because several different studies decrying racial prejudice against blacks exists does not validate them automatically. We are discussing why they are not valid.
From what I read they had only one specific about the past crimes and that was their codes.
Quote where they used all past codes for each subject. They used 5.
Quote where they incorporated past sentence lengths into the study…not what the guidelines recommend but the actual sentence as assigned.
Don’t you think that if violent criminals keep behaving violently after serving each sentence, the prosecutor is going to recommend the maximum minimum. Where was that taken into account in the study?
I don’t understand what citation you are talking about…is it about the study I haven’t received access to yet?
Can you refer me to those studies?