Collateral Damage: The Health Effects of Invasive Police Encounters in New York City

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 eval...

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Published in:Journal of urban health 2016-04, Vol.93 (Suppl 1), p.42-67
Main Authors: Sewell, Abigail A., Jefferson, Kevin A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
African Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Community health care
Continental Population Groups - statistics & numerical data
Epidemiology
Ethnicity
European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data
Female
Health
Health Informatics
Health Status Disparities
Humans
Law Enforcement - methods
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Neighborhoods
New York City - epidemiology
Police
Police - statistics & numerical data
Public Health
Residence Characteristics - statistics & numerical data
Socioeconomic Factors
Urban Health - statistics & numerical data
Young Adult
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1099-3460
1468-2869
1468-2869
DOI:10.1007/s11524-015-0016-7