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LAPD officers more likely to stop, search and arrest minorities than whites, report says

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

LAPD officers more likely to stop, search and arrest minorities than whites, report says The report by a Yale professor also found that LAPD officers were less likely to find weapons or drugs on blacks or Latinos than whites when they frisked them or subjected them to consensual searches. By Andrew Blankstein From the Los Angeles Times October 21, 2008 Los Angeles police officers are far more likely to stop, search and arrest minorities than they are whites -- even after statistics were adjusted for high- and low-crime areas -- according to a nongovernmental report released Monday. The report by Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California found that once stopped, African Americans were 29% more likely to be arrested than whites...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).