01703nam a22001577a 4500 514639 514639 201125b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Gaston, Shytierra and Brunson, Rod K. 21430 Reasonable suspicion in the Eye of the beholder: Routine policing in racially different disadvantaged neighborhoods Urban Affairs Review 56(1), Jan, 2020: p.188-227 This study extends Brunson and Weitzer’s 2009 endeavor to elucidate the influence of race and place in policing by reexamining enforcement practices across disadvantaged urban neighborhoods but from the purview of police. We investigate the impact of race and neighborhood context on officer decision making and routine enforcement practices by analyzing 144 official reports of drug arrests made between 2009 and 2013 in a similarly disadvantaged majority White, majority Black, and racially mixed neighborhood in St. Louis. Our analysis reveals the importance of place and race for helping to shape officers’ decision making and investigation practices. In particular, proactive traffic and pedestrian stops, motivated by officers’ views of criminogenic neighborhood conditions, drove most drug arrests in the three study settings. Enforcement practices differed, however, in the racially mixed neighborhood where proactive encounters were more frequent, capricious, and seemingly driven by race. Our findings have important implications for research and policy. – Reproduced Police discretion, Policing, Neighborhoods, Racial profiling, Police discretion, Arrests 19457 Urban Affairs Review POLICE - COMMUNITY RELATIONS AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 388642 IIPA IIPA 2020-11-25 56(1), Jan, 2020: p.188-227 AR124119 2020-11-25 AR