Date of Award
3-22-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Department of Criminal Justice Sciences
First Advisor
Michael Gizzi
Abstract
This thesis examines the use of tactics originally purposed as a component of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Operation Pipeline and their evolution since their creation in the 1980’s. The paper provides a history of investigatory policing stops regarding the argument of Epp et al. (2014) that primarily relied on Police Chief magazine and Remsberg’s Street Survival. Epp argues that the methods used in investigatory stops are an invasion of privacy, use racial profiling, and have proliferated from a tactic used in the war on drugs to combat drug trafficking to a routine day-to-day policing tactic. Through the use of a narrative review this paper will provide a detailed illustration of investigatory stops, the evolution of techniques involved in these stops, court decisions effects on enforcement policies, proliferation of investigatory stops, and racial disparities investigatory stops.
Recommended Citation
Lacey, Brett A., "An Examination of the Evolution of Racially Biased Pretextual Investigatory Stops and Their Legitimacy in Policing" (2017). Theses and Dissertations. 760.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/760
DOI
http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2017.Lacey.B
Page Count
92
Comments
Imported from ProQuest Lacey_ilstu_0092N_10971.pdf