Center For Policing Equity Publishes Report On Anti-Black Racial Disparities In Police Stops

By Center For Policing Equity Photos: Twitter\YouTube Screenshots The Center for Policing Equity (CPE) announces the publication of a new white paper titled “Compounding Anti-Black Racial Disparities in Police Stops.” This paper provides an overview of racial disparities in the multiple decisions police officers make when interacting with the public during vehicle stops. More specifically, the white paper maps how racial disparities during traffic stops increase the risks of harm for Black drivers at subsequent decision points throughout the encounter and that these traffic stops serve no public safety or crime reduction purpose. “Decades of research shows that Black people disproportionately bear the brunt of policing in the United States,” said the paper’s author Matthew A. Graham, Senior Data Analyst at CPE. “They’re stopped more often for pretextual, non-public-safety related reasons like expired plates, tinted windows, and broken taillights, which are exactly the types of stops that are much more likely to result in a search, so Black people are therefore searched more. Being subjected to a discretionary search makes use of force 14 times more likely, so the elevated search rate of Black people increases their risk of physical harm from police.” Drawing from dozens of Justice Navigator Assessments...