Addressing Ethnic Profiling by Police: A Report on the Strategies for Effective Police Stop and Search Project

Every day police in Europe make hundreds of decisions about whom to stop and search The power Lo stop and search is a basic tool of policing and stops are, the 'primary point of contact with police for most people but their impact and effectiveness are rarely examined Slops and searches can help detect crime but can also entail ethnic profiling and damage police1 community relations if members of minority groups are stopped disproportionately.

This book describes how selected police forces in Bulgaria, Hungary , and 'Spain worked with the Open Society Justice Initiative to monitor the use of stops, determine if they disproportionately affect minority groups, and assess their efficacy in detecting and solving crime The ultimate goal of the Strategies for Effective Police Stop and Search (STEPSS) project was to improve relations between police and minority communities by increasing the fairness, effectiveness and accountability of police stops.

Addressing Ethnic Profiling by Police details the successes and short comings of the STEPSS project It tracks the changes undertaken by participating police force? including a municipal police force in Spain that increased 'the effectiveness of stops while reducing their number and disproportional perhaps most important, Addressing Ethnic f Profiling by Police provider's roadmap toward greater fairness, improved efficiency, and better police community relations.