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Item Prior knowledge : innovations for the Austin Police Department(2018-05) Broussard, Nicholas Christian; Angel, Jacqueline LoweThe report evaluates the effects of standardized policing practices and policies that influence arrest rates within the Austin Police Department (APD). Using APD’s 2016 Racial Profiling Data Set, I analyze various explanatory factors through logistic regression to understand minority arrest imbalances with regards to high-crime locations and high-crime times of the day. I find that policies requiring dispatchers to notify officers of a suspect’s race before the officer is on-site increase the likelihood of minority arrest in high-crime locations, but not in high-crime times of the day. A major explanation is a cultural stigmatization associated with minority neighborhoods. APD should enact four policy changes to lessen such effects: Abbreviate the length of patrol shifts, increase the presence of minority officers in minority neighborhoods, institutionalize real-world training scenarios during initial entry training, and create a conviction integrity unit to audit existing minority arrest cases.