Police Discrimination
Dimension 504 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Police Discrimination measures the extent to which expressions describe or anticipate unfair, suspicious, or punitive treatment by police that is linked to race or ethnicity. It encompasses both direct encounters and expectations of being stopped, searched, watched, or otherwise singled out by law enforcement.
evidence final name · Police Contact
Minimal Police Discrimination
Expressions activating this band describe broad unfair treatment, discrimination, or related stress in everyday services and institutions, with only limited or indirect reference to police-specific targeting.
Low Police Discrimination
Expressions activating this band describe police attention or surveillance framed as suspicion, hassle, or concern about being stopped because of race or ethnicity.
Moderate Police Discrimination
Expressions activating this band describe an expectation or experience of being stopped, questioned, or formally handled by police as a racially marked event.
High Police Discrimination
Expressions activating this band describe clearly unfair police treatment, including harassment, unjust stops, arrest-related encounters, or judgments that police acted unfairly.
Severe Police Discrimination
Expressions activating this band describe direct racialized police harassment and intrusive enforcement actions such as random stops, frisks, searches, identity checks, or orders to move on.
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Minimal Police Contact: Police contact is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse police contact.
Emerging Police Contact: Police contact is clearly present at this level. Compared to the band below, police contact is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band reflect police contact at this level of intensity.
Elevated Police Contact: Police contact is experienced here as physiological and somatic distress, reflecting embodied arousal and clinical-grade symptom intensity. Unlike the band below, where police contact was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band likely reflect physiological and embodied police contact.
Severe Police Contact: Police contact is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where police contact was characterized by the somatic and physiological form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect police contact at this level of intensity.