New NYPD Committee To Study Racial Disparities In Street Stops
By Rocco Parascandola|New York Daily News Photos: YouTube Screenshots|Wikimedia Commons Two academics have been tapped to analyze disparities in police street stops, the latest attempt to make sure officers don’t engage in racial profiling, according to the NYPD’s federal monitor. The recently formed Racial Disparities Review Committee comes nearly 13 years after a federal judge ruled that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the nation’s largest police force violated the constitutional rights of minorities. The NYPD since then has adapted numerous court-ordered reforms. But the federal monitor in place since that ruling has repeatedly said that even when officers conduct a legally justified stop, the subsequent frisk or more invasive search is too often not justified. Enter professor Sharad Goel of the Harvard Kennedy School and associate professor Alex Cholas-Wood of New York University. Goel, who teaches public policy, will serve as an adviser to the committee while Cholas-Wood, who specializes in computational science, will support implementation of the Fourteenth Amendment compliance plan. Goel did not respond to requests for comment and Cholas-Wood noted that he started working for the committee March 19 and referred questions to the NYPD. The department also did not respond to requests for comment but has routinely said it does not engage in racial profiling…READ MORE
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By Rocco Parascandola|New York Daily News
Photos: YouTube Screenshots|Wikimedia Commons
Two academics have been tapped to analyze disparities in police street stops, the latest attempt to make sure officers don’t engage in racial profiling, according to the NYPD’s federal monitor.
The recently formed Racial Disparities Review Committee comes nearly 13 years after a federal judge ruled that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the nation’s largest police force violated the constitutional rights of minorities.
The NYPD since then has adapted numerous court-ordered reforms. But the federal monitor in place since that ruling has repeatedly said that even when officers conduct a legally justified stop, the subsequent frisk or more invasive search is too often not justified.
Enter professor Sharad Goel of the Harvard Kennedy School and associate professor Alex Cholas-Wood of New York University.
Goel, who teaches public policy, will serve as an adviser to the committee while Cholas-Wood, who specializes in computational science, will support implementation of the Fourteenth Amendment compliance plan.
Goel did not respond to requests for comment and Cholas-Wood noted that he started working for the committee March 19 and referred questions to the NYPD. The department also did not respond to requests for comment but has routinely said it does not engage in racial profiling…READ MORE
