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43 Fordham Urb. L.J. 539 (2016)
Stops and Stares: Street Stops, Surveillance, and Race in the New Policing

handle is hein.journals/frdurb43 and id is 557 raw text is: STOPS AND STARES: STREET STOPS, SURVEILLANCE, AND RACE IN THE NEW POLICING* JeffreyFagan,** AnthonyA. Braga,** RodK Brunson,** andApril Pattavmna* ABSTRACT The use of proactive tactics to disrupt criminal activities, such as Terry street stops and concentrated misdemeanor arrests, are essential to the new policing. This model applies complex metrics, strong management, and aggressive enforcement and surveillance to focus policing on high crime risk persons and places. The tactics endemic to the newpolicinggave rise in the 1990s to popular, legal, political, and social science concerns about disparate treatment of minority groups in their everyday encounters with law enforcement. Empirical evidence showed that minorities were indeed stopped and arrested more frequently than similarly situated Whites, even when controlling for local social and crime conditions. In this Article, we examine racial disparities under a unique configuration of the street stop prong of the new policing-the inclusion of non-contact This research was conducted at the joint request of the Boston Police Department and the ACLU of Massachusetts. The Boston Police Department generously provided the data on its encounters with citizens as well as data on crime and arrests and police officers in the City of Boston. We thank Police Commissioner William Evans, former Commissioner Edward Davis, former Chief of Staff Sharon Hanson, and the staff of the Boston Regional Intelligence Center. At the ACLU of Massachusetts, John Reinstein helped create the collaboration that made possible this research. Carol Rose and Matthew Segal of the ACLU also contributed to the project. All opinions are solely ours and do not reflect the views of the Boston Police Department or the ACLU. Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University Professor and Dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at University of Massachusetts, Lowell 539

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