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Because officers’ choose where they live, the last part of the paper exploits quasi-random variation in the turnover of officers’ neighbors. I find that White officers with a new Black neighbor stop relatively fewer Black civilians and, if they do, their stops are more “productive.”
 
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I find that White officers living in Black neighborhoods do not stop Black civilians at a differential rate, but their Black stops are more “productive” (e.g., more likely to result in drugs found/seized during a stop).
 
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Combining multiple administrative data, I find that White (in contrast to Black and Hispanic) officers are clustered in a few (predominantly White) neighborhoods.
 
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Ten years of data from a large American city (that I can’t disclose) reveal that Black Americans are systematically overrepresented in street stops (60% of all individuals stopped are Black).

Can police officer (home) neighborhoods explain part of these racial disparities?

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