This study uses the New York Police Department's 2015 stop, question, and frisk data to test and contextualize the minority threat hypothesis. The minority threat hypothesis predicts that police officers will feel more threatened in precincts that are predominantly black or Latino. Accordingly, police officers will be more likely to use force in these precincts. To test the minority threat hypothesis, this study explores the effect that the racial composition of a precinct, specifically the percentage of black and Latino residents in a precinct, has on the likelihood of an NYPD officer using force. Ultimately, this study finds that an individual's race has a significant effect on whether an officer uses force, but that only the percentage of Latino residents in a precinct, and not black residents, has a significant effect on use of force, offering limited support of the minority threat hypothesis.