Methods for assessing racially biased policing

Race, Ethnicity, and Policing: New and Essential Readings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 180-204

  Ridgeway, Greg ^a   MacDonald, John ^b  

^a Pardee RAND Graduate School   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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