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"In 1 month, the city's police officers did 588 stops of Black drivers and only 262 stops of white drivers.

Over 15% of Black drivers experienced a search, handcuffing, or arrest, while less than 1% of whites did."

"The study initially set out to look at patterns related to traffic stop escalation for white drivers too, but realized that it happened so infrequently for whites that there were insufficient numbers to even include them in the analysis." #BlackMastodon https://www.npr.org/2023/05/29/1178279383/for-black-drivers-a-police-officers-first-45-words-are-a-portent-of-whats-to-com