Patterns of "stop and frisk" activity by police across New York City neighborhoods reflect competing theories of aggressive policing.
In short, the Baltimore Police Department engaged in a pattern of stopping African-Americans without any real justification.
One summer when we were living in Brentwood Park we fell into a pattern of stopping work at 4 in the afternoon and going out to the pool.
Prosecutors dropped charges against 73 other protesters who were among about 200 people who closed down the expressway on July 3, to condemn state troopers for a pattern of stopping minority drivers.
The officious stream of Sunday-school classes and bereavement committees bearing casseroles and Jell-O molds would have begun to dry up, if it hadn't already, and the other visitors would have returned to their normal pattern of stopping by only when it suited them, if they came at all.
The Violence Control and Law Enforcement Act empowers federal investigators to study patterns of stops, arrests and use of force for evidence of discriminatory policing.
However, although disorder theory informs quality of life policing strategies, patterns of stop and frisk activity suggest that neighborhood characteristics such as racial composition, poverty levels, and extent of social disorganization are stronger predictors of race- and crime-specific stops.
The civil rights probe, which comes on the heels of a month of protests following the shooting of unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, will look into patterns of stops and arrests, the use of force, and police training — as well as the treatment of people held in Ferguson's city jail — to determine whether discrimination played a factor in police behavior there.
This is an interesting observation, and we have analyzed patterns of stop codon usage in both overlapping and non-overlapping genes.
That incongruity, along with the strange pattern of counting, stopping without explanation, restarting without notice, reporting a "computer failure" that still makes no sense and restarting with counting taking an entirely different direction, has frustrated Hondurans.
