Joscha Legewie Profile picture
Sociologist at @Harvard
Aug 29, 2018 5 tweets 3 min read
How does aggressive policing affect the educational outcomes of minority youth? Our new working paper finds a negative effect of a policing program in NYC on test-scores for African-American boys aged 13-15 years. Read more here osf.io/preprints/soca…. Feedback welcome! 1/5 Under Operation Impact, the NYPD saturated high crime areas with additional police officers with the mission to engage in aggressive, order maintenance policing. In these Impact Zones, police stops spiked by 33%, misdemeanor arrests by 11% and violation arrests by 30%. 2/5