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Suspect Citizens
What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race


Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, and Kelsey Shoub


Cambridge University Press, 2018

 

Winner, C. Herman Pritchett Best Book Award from the APSA Organized Section on Law and Courts, 2019

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List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Suspect Citizens: Fighting the War on Crime with Traffic Stops
Chapter 2. A Legislative Mandate to Address Concerns about Racial Profiling
Chapter 3. Who Gets Stopped?
Chapter 4. What Happens After a Stop?
Chapter 5. Finding Contraband
Chapter 6. Search and Arrest Patterns by Officer and Agency
Chapter 7. Profiling Hispanics, Profiling Blacks
Chapter 8. Black Political Power and Disparities in Policing
Chapter 9. Reforms that Reduce Alienation and Enhance Community Safety
Chapter 10. Conclusions
References
Appendix A. Text of SB 76 as Enacted in 1999
Appendix B. Status of the Law as of 2017
Appendix C. SBI-122 Form
Appendix D. Durham Police Department Written Consent to Search Form
Appendix E. Shortcomings in the Official Data and Recommendations

 

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