“Reasonable Suspicion”, 2020
Form DCJS 3205
34.5 x 50.5 x 3.5 cm

The NYPD incident report records the race of both the victim and suspect, but it only records the skin tone of the suspect. The suspect description functions to create a wanted profile that police seek to match. Matching a description in the vicinity of a reported crime is often considered enough to meet the standard for reasonable suspicion.

According to the NYPD COMPSTAT report, in 2019 Black people constituted 52.35% of misdemeanor and felony suspects and 60.3% of Stop, Question, and Frisk subjects.

In 2019 Black people constituted 24.3% of the city’s population.

installation view
Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2020