Question 2.25

2.25 Racial profiling and traffic stops. The Denver Police Department wants to know if Hispanic residents of Denver believe that the police use racial profiling when making traffic stops. A sociologist prepares several questions about the police. The police department chooses an SRS of 200 mailing addresses in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods and sends a uniformed Hispanic police officer to each address to ask the questions of an adult living there.

  1. (a) What are the population and the sample?

  2. (b) Why are the results likely to be biased even though the sample is an SRS?