Researcher: Gender Plays Role In Racial Profiling
There is more to police profiling than just race.
A Kansas State University researcher has found that gender plays a role too.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that Jeremy Briggs has been analyzing traffic stop data. It already was known that white women are less likely to be ticketed, searched or arrested than men.
But Briggs says black and Hispanic women are ticketed, arrested or searched during traffic stops more often than white women and at a level comparable to white men.
The sociology doctoral candidate also found black drivers overall were more than twice as likely as white drivers to be arrested. And black men were 2 1/2 times as likely as white men to be arrested.
Briggs says gender should be part of the larger racial profiling discussion.
Who commits a majority of the crimes?
Who has the least amount of education?
…income, etc, etc.
you said it sunnysideup. if you arent doin anything wrong who cares if you get stopped or searched
also, im pretty sure we have all races on the police force. its irritating how all sorts of crap has to get race involved.
The researcher sorry to say probably receive a federal grant of one bizillion $$$… never add that the neighborhood is 99% non-white and the stops are made at 2:00am.