Suspect Citizens

What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government
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Author: Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, Kelsey Shoub ISBN: 9781108688826
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: July 10, 2018
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, Kelsey Shoub
ISBN: 9781108688826
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: July 10, 2018
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. From the beginning, police agencies made it clear that very large numbers of police stops would have to occur before an officer might interdict a significant drug shipment. Unstated in that calculation was that many Americans would be subjected to police investigations so that a small number of high-level offenders might be found. The key element in this strategy, which kept it hidden from widespread public scrutiny, was that middle-class white Americans were largely exempt from its consequences. Tracking these police practices down to the officer level, Suspect Citizens documents the extreme rarity of drug busts and reveals sustained and troubling disparities in how racial groups are treated.

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Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. From the beginning, police agencies made it clear that very large numbers of police stops would have to occur before an officer might interdict a significant drug shipment. Unstated in that calculation was that many Americans would be subjected to police investigations so that a small number of high-level offenders might be found. The key element in this strategy, which kept it hidden from widespread public scrutiny, was that middle-class white Americans were largely exempt from its consequences. Tracking these police practices down to the officer level, Suspect Citizens documents the extreme rarity of drug busts and reveals sustained and troubling disparities in how racial groups are treated.

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