Oakland police stops blacks at higher rate

Frank Zimring quoted in The San Francisco Chronicle, March 24, 2014 (link inactive)

The data also comes out at time when the department is working to reduce crime and rebuild public trust in one of the most dangerous cities in America, said Frank Zimring…. “This is a real dilemma, because on one hand there’s no evidence that the police are using anything other than crime-controlled criteria to select the targets for their stops, but on the other hand, most of the people they stop are African-Americans,” Zimring said. “There is no clean ‘Everybody wins,’ solution to this.”