Traffic Stop Data News Today

print we are the back tomorrow night at 5:00 p.m. eastern, good night. >> the videos are disturbing. their names are well known. traffic stops where drivers pay the ultimate price. quick shots fired subject is down too. >> in a system fraught with bias. >> with a black man four times more likely that a white man to be searched. >> how did we get here? >> are you training traffic stops or the most dangerous things that could happen? >> you are because they actually are. >> these stops c...

The results of the 2023 Report on Analysis of Traffic Stop Data is alarming to the NAACP, but not surprising. WFIR's Denise Allen Membreno reports.

Are traffic stops in Santa Monica racially discriminatory? Thanks to the CA Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA), we now have data from SMPD to help answer this question

Get to a place where if you are black you are more likely to be pulled over and searched? >> black and white motorist on very different footing when they get on the road in terms of the risks they face very. >> cocounsel gave us a look at some of north carolinas traffic stop data. we took a look at the data reported by the police in salisbury, north carolina where stephanie was stopped. white population is nearly 50%. the black population is 37.5%. the rest is a mix of hispanic, asian, native am...

Salisbury officers use force on them following a traffic stock were black, less than 30% were white. north carolina has a mandated statewide collection of traffic stop data since 2000. that data from law enforcement shows a similar story across the entire states. take charlotte for example the states largest city black folks are 34.5% of the population. but more than 51% of the stops. about 70% of the searches and nearly 78% of the drivers on whom officers use force following a traffic stop. acc...

North carolina mandated statewide collection of traffic stop data since 2000 and that data from law enforcement shows a similar story across the entire state. take charlotte, for example, the states largest city. black folks are 34.5% of the population but more than 51% of the stops. about 70% of the searches, and nearly 78% of the drivers on whom drivers use force following a traffic stop. according to this 2017 paper by vongardner and his colleagues examining hundreds of police departments, th...

Roughly speaking. >> professor frank baumgartner at the university of north carolina chapel hill is an expert on traffic stops. he analyzed 20 million of them in north carolina alone. he says the disparities are even more pronounced when if comes to searches. >> once pulled over, thats a double whammy, gives you a four times greater likelihood of being searched, just being black. >> you probably heard the phrase, driving while black. its a common refrain in the black community. but now we have c...

We took a look at the data reported by the police in salisbury north carolina where stephanie bottom was stopped. white population is nearly 50%. the black population is 37.5%. the rest is a mix of hispanic, asian, native american and other. the recorded stops reflect the demographic makeup of the population. theyre roughly even. but when you zero in on what happened after the traffic stop we get down to severance we see that there is a significant jump here. >> about 60% of the people searched ...

Body cameras to be deployed for 1,600 SCPD officers.

Problem. >>neil: you had to present certain documents to prove your point; what documents have gone back and forth? or have any gone back and forth? >>guest: a lot of documents the justice department has, hundreds of thousands produced in other litigation including the traffic stop data and other things related to profiling. >>neil: what did they want? >>guest: that was our question. today we went through a point by point and had them articulate what they wanted and we will go back and point out...