Ongoing Projects

Matthew B. Ross

Policy Partner: William R. Dyson, Chairman, Racial Profiling Prohibition Project Advisory Board, State of Connecticut

Using Telemetric Mobility Data to Build a Better Early Warning System for Discrimination in Police Traffic Stops

States and localities face considerable challenges in producing, acting on, and sharing data on racially disparate treatment and outcomes in traffic enforcement. While many states require police to collect data on the race of the drivers involved in traffic stops, they often lack the capacity to analyze it. Best practices rely on complex statistical tests largely due to a lack of available data on driver demographics. This project develops a new methodology by leveraging “big data” on telemetric mobility patterns. This project will engage with state and local policing agencies in the Northeast to assist in their collection of race/ethnicity in traffic stops and aide in their development of data-driven early warning systems to identify disparities.

Alicia Modestino

Summer Youth Employment & Improvements in Criminal Justice Outcomes

This research investigates the impact of Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEPs) on crime. Measured through arraignments in the year and a half following the conclusion of the programs, this study found that SYEPs reduced violent crime by 35% over the trial period.​