@article{ref1,
title="Race-sensitive choices by police officers in traffic stop encounters",
journal="Police quarterly",
year="2010",
author="Barnum, Christopher and Perfetti, Robert L.",
volume="13",
number="2",
pages="180-208",
abstract="This study introduces a statistical estimator that can be used to examine disproportionate traffic stop behavior of police officers. This estimator can be employed in concert with internal benchmark data and a tree diagram algorithm to identify and classify disproportionate behavior. These methodologies are multilevel and can be used (a) at the macrolevel to examine disproportionality of a police department as an organization and (b) at the microlevel to draw inferences about reasons for individual officers' disproportionate behavior. These statistical routines were tested using data from a medium sized midwestern community. Results suggest that the models are effective in detecting disproportionality in both a police organization and an individual officers' traffic stop activity. Moreover, the methods may serve as an initial step in pointing toward the sources of the officers' behavior.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1098-6111",
doi="10.1177/1098611110365690",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1098611110365690"
}