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Santa Clara Law Review
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RACIAL DISPARITIES IN POLICING
Abstract: Racial disparities within the criminal justice system continue to be a pressing issue, especially after the recent passage of California’s Racial Justice Act, which allows for a broader set of legal challenges based on racially disparate treatment. In this article, we analyze data for almost four million stops by California’s fifteen largest law enforcement agencies in 2019, examining the extent to which people of color experience searches, enforcement, intrusivenes
Deepak Premkumar; Magnus Lofstrom; Joseph Hayes; Brandon Martin; Sean Cremin
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