The Effect of Civil Litigation on Policing Practices

• In Event: Levers of Power in the Criminal Legal System

Brief Overview

This paper asks whether civil litigation holds police accountable, and who benefits. Using an original dataset of cases filed in North Carolina using PACER and merged with traffic stop records, we find disparate impacts by area, force, and resources.

Authors

• Brooke Nicole Shannon, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

• christine C bird, Oklahoma State University-Main Campus