Just 2 miles north from MU lies MU Extension’s Law Enforcement Training Institute. The program trains and graduates a substantial number of officers to the Columbia Police Department. CPD stops Black individuals at disproportionate rates when conducting traffic stops. Black residents of Columbia were overrepresented by 362% in traffic stops conducted by LETI officers in 2019. Racial discrimination in police departments can be measured through disparity indices, a metric created by researchers from University of Missouri-Saint Louis. In the context of policing, a disparity index is a proportion of the number of stops concerning a specific demographic in relation to the actual proportion of said demographic in the population.