Policing Socio-geographic Change and Displacement

What role does policing play in making and maintaining geographic boundaries that reinforce and exacerbate racial and economic inequality in American cities? Political scientists Hannah Walker, Marcel Roman, Derek Epp, Mike Findley, and Amy Liu will examine the variations in police stops and arrests at the boundaries of geographically adjacent neighborhoods with large racial, ethnic, and income differences. They will analyze incident-level crime data, data on the location of arrests and police stops, and Census data on neighborhood socio-economic characteristics of multiple cities for their study.