Street stops and broken windows revisited: The demography and logic of proactive policing in a safe and changing city

Race, Ethnicity, and Policing: New and Essential Readings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 309-348

  Fagan, Jeffrey A ^a   Geller, Amanda ^a   Davies, Garth ^b   West, Valerie ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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