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Measuring racial profiling: Why it's hard to tell where police are treating minorities unfairly

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St Louis
Stop and frisk has often been criticized as a way to target minorities.Dmitry Kalinovsky/shutterstock.com

Donald Trump has waved the words “stop and frisk” around like a banner call to cure violent crime in American cities.

That means it’s time to take a look back at one of the primary criticisms of this police practice: racial...

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