This study asks whether deficiencies in transportation are associated with disproportionate policing in Chicago using the case of cycling. The author examines how the number of bicycle citations issued per street segment are influenced by the availability of bicycle facilities and street characteristics, controlling for crash incidence, police presence, and neighborhood characteristics. Infrastructure inequities compound the effects of racially-biased policing in the context of transportation safety strategies. Remedies include the removal of traffic enforcement from safe systems strategies and equitable investment in cycling.
In the aftermath of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s murders by the police, we know now it is not the...
An interactive map documenting efforts to build cop city training complexes around the US, including a spreadsheet with relevant information....
This edition updates those findings through the 2022-23 school year with analysis of 372 assaults and includes additional data points,...
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