EFFECT OF SUSPECT RACE ON OFFICERS’ ARREST DECISIONS*

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Race and Cumulative Discrimination in the Prosecution of Criminal Defendants (2013, background): “The decision to arrest is important because recent research suggests that race influences the likelihood that the police will arrest a criminal suspect (D’Alessio & Stolzenberg, 2003; Kochel et al., 2011).”
The color of punishment: African Americans, skin tone, and the criminal justice system (2018, background): “…shows that race is significantly associated with arrest and the association persists after controlling for a host of legal factors such as: the presence of witnesses, the quantity of evidence at the scene, and even the prior criminal record of the suspect (Kochel, Wilson, and Mastrofski 2011, 495).”
Does Predictive Policing Lead to Biased Arrests? Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial (2018, background): “pedestrian stops [18, 19, 25, 26, 27, 49, 59], traffic tickets [16], drug enforcement and arrests [7, 9, 33, 38, 57], use of force [45, 13, 35, 51], and even in the decision to shoot white or black criminal suspects while in a training simulator [24, 47].”
Race and Perceptions of Police: Experimental Results on the Impact of Procedural (In)Justice (2017, unknown): “In addition, in a meta-analysis of 27 independent data sets, Kochel, Wilson, and Mastrofski (2011) found that minorities are more likely to be arrested than whites.”