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Joscha Legewie (Harvard University), Jeffrey Fagan (Columbia Law School)
- jlegewie@fas.harvard.edu
Aggressive Policing and the Educational Performance of Minority Youth
This report examines the first causal evidence of the impact of aggressive policing on minority youths’ educational performance in NYC. Using data collected from 250,000 adolescents ages nine to 15, results support the idea that exposure to increased police presence significantly reduced test scores for African American boys.