The health effects of police
surveillance practices for the community at-large are unknown. Using microlevel
health data from the 2009-2012 New York City Community Health Survey (NYC-CHS)
nested within mesolevel data from the 2009-2012 NYC Stop, Question, and Frisk
(NYC-SQF) dataset, this study evaluates contextual and ethnoracially variant
associations between invasive aspects of pedestrian stops and multiple
dimensions of poor health.
Results reveal that living in neighborhoods where
pedestrian stops are more likely to become invasive is associated with worse
health. Living in neighborhoods where stops are more likely to result in
frisking show the most consistent negative associations. More limited
deleterious effects can be attributed to living in neighborhoods where stops
are more likely to involve use of force or in neighborhoods with larger
ethnoracial disparities in frisking or use of force.
However, the health
effects of pedestrian stops vary by ethnoracial group in complex ways. For
instance, minorities who live in neighborhoods with a wider ethno racial
disparity in police behavior have poorer health outcomes in most respects, but
blacks have lower odds of diabetes when they live in neighborhoods where they
face a higher risk that a stop will involve use of force by police than do
whites.
The findings suggest that the consequences of the institutionalization
of the carceral state are far-reaching.
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By:
- 1Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. abigail.a.sewell@emory.edu (http://sociology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/Abigail%20A.%20Sewell.html).
- 2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. abigail.a.sewell@emory.edu.
- 3Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
- J Urban Health. 2016 Jan 15.
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