Testing for Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops From Behind a Veil of Darkness

By Jeffrey T. Grogger, Greg Ridgeway. 2006

258 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Health

1. J. Macdonald
2. Richard A. Berk
3. Sharad Goel
4. Steven Mello
5. Sam Corbett-Davies
6. Greg Ridgeway
7. Salvatore Ruggieri
8. Andrea Romei

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Sam Corbett-Davies
2. Sharad Goel
3. Camelia Simoiu
4. Andrea Romei
5. Steven Mello
6. Felipe M. Goncalves
7. J. Macdonald
8. Richard A. Berk

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Sharad Goel
2. Sam Corbett-Davies
3. Camelia Simoiu
4. Steven Mello
5. Felipe M. Goncalves
6. J. Macdonald
7. Richard A. Berk
8. Salvatore Ruggieri

Citations in the corpus

• A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing (2017, background): “, 2017; Agan and Starr, 2016), studies that vary the observability of race or gender (Goldin and Rouse, 2000; Grogger and Ridgeway, 2006; Donohue, 2014), and studies of settings with rich controls for underlying behavior and context (Fryer, 2018).”
• Doubly Robust Internal Benchmarking and False Discovery Rates for Detecting Racial Bias in Police Stops (2009, methodology): “More recently, Grogger and Ridgeway (2006) used changes to and from Daylight Savings Time to detect whether the ability to identify race in advance of the stop influenced the race distribution of drivers that were stopped.”
• Assessing the Effect of Race Bias in Post-traffic Stop Outcomes Using Propensity Scores (2006, background): “Lamberth, 1994, 1996), radar and cameras (Lange et al., 2001), stops initiated from aerial patrols (McConnell and Scheidegger, 2001), internal or matched officer benchmarks (Decker and Rojek, 2002), not-at-fault car crashes (Alpert et al., 2003), and an instrumental variables approach using variatio”
• The Problem of Infra-marginality in Outcome Tests for Discrimination (2016, background): “Grogger and Ridgeway (2006) construct benchmarks by considering stops at night, when a “veil of darkness” masks race.”
• The Role of Race in Forecasts of Violent Crime (2009, background): “Among the many issues addressed are racial profiling (Grogger and Ridgeway, 2006; Alpert et al., 2007), charging discrimination in capital cases (Baldus et al.”
• Precinct or Prejudice? Understanding Racial Disparities in New York City's Stop-and-Frisk Policy (2016, background): “In a novel design, Grogger and Ridgeway (2006) analyzed traffic stops in Oakland and showed that the racial distribution of stopped individuals during the day, when a suspect’s race is readily apparent, matches the distribution at night, when the “veil of darkness” masks race, and thus concluded…”
• A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, background): “Grogger and Ridgeway (2006) depart from the explicit definition of benchmark data.”