Keep the Beat? The Effects of Geographically Organized Policing

• In Event: Geographies of Policing and Social Control

Brief Overview

We demonstrates that racial disparities in policing can be the product of administrative decision making, rather than just officer-level bias. The classification of beats as high or low crime, and resulting resource allocation, drives inequities

Authors

• Alexander Love, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Michael Greenberger, University of Denver