Crime Minimisation and Racial bias: What can we Learn from Police Search Data?
探讨在警方以犯罪最小化为目标而非成功率最大化时，搜查成功率中的种族差异是否仍能反映种族偏见，并给出验证条件。
Is variation by motorist race in the success rate of searches informative about racial bias if police are motivated by crime minimisation rather than success-rate maximisation? We show that the basic idea of extracting information from 'hit rates' may still be valid, provided one can verify some simple restrictions on the joint distribution of criminality by race. We also extend these results to the case where the police minimise the rate of unpunished crime.