Study of 100 million police traffic stops shows new evidence of racial bias. (1/5)
in suburban Minneapolis — all black men — most end without anyone getting hurt. Still, for drivers of color who are stopped by police, the suspicion that racial bias played a role can linger.
A"veil of darkness" test was done to analyze whether black drivers are being pulled over at a higher rate during the day than at night, when officers would have a harder time distinguishing race from a distance. After adjusting for the variation in sunset times across the year, researchers found a 5 to 10 percent drop in the share of stopped drivers after sunset who are black, suggesting black drivers are being racially profiled during the day.
While Pasco hadn't seen the latest Stanford study, he said racial-bias-related studies in general might not consider whether minorities do more driving in some areas compared to white drivers, and that police officers patrol higher-crime areas that also have larger minority populations, and therefore, more minority drivers.
In St. Paul, which employs more than 600 officers, numbers for traffic stops as well as 911 calls and traffic crashes are released each year. St. Paul police spokesman Steve Linders said the move is part of a directive that Police Chief Todd Axtell issued in 2016.
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