HARTFORD, Conn. — The collection of police traffic stop data around the country has exposed a divide among law enforcement officials on how to respond to the numbers, which consistently show blacks and Hispanics are pulled over at higher rates than whites. “There’s a wide variety of thought among police leadership about the value of the traffic stop data,” said Ian Mance, a staff attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice in Durham, North Carolina. From 2012 to 2016, the percentage of police traffic stops in Fayetteville involving black drivers decreased from 58 to 52. Connecticut is a microcosm of the differing law enforcement opinions on traffic stop data. Missouri began compiling data on traffic stops in 2000 in response to concerns about potential racial profiling.

Source: National Post December 07, 2017 18:22 UTC