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Racial Profiling, Bad Cops, and Police Shootings

Mar 4, 2019 - 4:10 PM
to Mar 4, 2019 - 5:00 PM

Department Seminar

Greg Ridgeway
University of Pennsylvania, Statistics & Criminology

 

Racial Profiling, Bad Cops, and Police Shootings

The police are chronically a topic of heated debate. However, most statistical analyses brought to bear on questions of police fairness rarely provide clarity on or solutions to the problems. This talk will cover statistical methods for estimating racial bias in traffic stops, identifying problematic cops, and determining which officers are most at risk for police shootings. All of these methods have been part of investigations of police departments in Oakland, Cincinnati, and New York and show that statistics has an important role in prominent crime and justice policy questions.


Refreshments at 3:45pm in Snedecor 2101.