The following excerpt is from the racial profiling datacollection resource center In 2006, the New York City PoliceDepartment stopped a half-million pedestrians for suspectedcriminal involvement. Raw89 percent of the stops involvednonwhites. Do these statistics point to a racial bias in policeofficers' decisions to stop particular pedestrians? o they indicatethat officers are particularly intrusive when stoppingnonwhites?
Write a report that answers the questions posed using the factthst 44% of New York City residents were classified as white in2006. In your report, cite some shortcomings in using theproportion of white residents in the city to formulatelikelihoods.
