Generalising the Hit Rates Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement, with an Application to Vehicle Searches in Wichita
用博弈论框架推广了基于结果的种族偏见检验方法，并应用于威奇托警察的车辆搜查数据，发现警察的搜查策略倾向于最大化成功搜查次数。
This article considers the use of outcomes-based tests for detecting racial bias in the context of police searches of motor vehicles. We characterise the police and motorist decision problems in a game theoretic framework, where police encounter motorists and decide whether to search them and motorists decide whether to carry contraband. Our modelling framework generalises that of Knowles "et al". (2001) . We apply the tests to data on police searches of motor vehicles gathered by the Wichita police department. The empirical findings are consistent with the notion that police in Wichita choose their search strategies to maximise successful searches. Copyright 2006 The Author(s). Journal compilation Royal Economic Society 2006.