01823nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100005000060245012100110260002500231300003300256520109100289650010001380773002501480906003301505942000701538952010801545  c514639d514639201125b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aGaston, Shytierra and Brunson, Rod K. 921430  aReasonable suspicion in the Eye of the beholder: Routine policing in racially different disadvantaged neighborhoods   aUrban Affairs Review  a 56(1), Jan, 2020: p.188-227  aThis 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   aPolice discretion, Policing, Neighborhoods, Racial profiling, Police discretion, Arrests919457  aUrban Affairs Review  aPOLICE - COMMUNITY RELATIONS  cAR  00102ddc40709388642aIIPAbIIPAd2020-11-25h 56(1), Jan, 2020: p.188-227pAR124119r2020-11-25yAR