1stRambo
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Yo, the way I see it? If your Black Ass Breaks the Law? You get a ticket or pulled over, period!
Skin Color, is no excuse to break Laws in America!!!
Jun 1, 1:46 PM EDT
REPORT: BLACK MISSOURI DRIVERS STILL GET STOPPED MORE OFTEN
BY SUMMER BALLENTINE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Black drivers in Missouri were nearly 70 percent more likely than whites to get stopped by the police last year, marking a slight improvement from the year before but showing there still are significant racial disparities in such stops.
State Attorney General Chris Koster's office released a report Wednesday showing that black motorists were 69 percent more likely than whites to be pulled over, based on their proportionate share of the driving-age population. That rate was 75 percent in 2014, which was the highest since data collection began in 2000.
Furthermore, police continue to arrest and search black and Hispanic drivers at rates "significantly higher than white drivers, even though white drivers are more frequently found to have contraband," according to Koster's analysis.
The treatment of blacks by the police has gotten a lot of attention in Missouri and elsewhere since the August 2014 fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Despite the record-high racial disparity in traffic stops in 2014, neither Republican-led chamber of the Legislature allowed a full vote this year on Democratic-sponsored bills aimed at curbing racial profiling.
News from The Associated Press
"GTP"
Skin Color, is no excuse to break Laws in America!!!
Jun 1, 1:46 PM EDT
REPORT: BLACK MISSOURI DRIVERS STILL GET STOPPED MORE OFTEN
BY SUMMER BALLENTINE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Black drivers in Missouri were nearly 70 percent more likely than whites to get stopped by the police last year, marking a slight improvement from the year before but showing there still are significant racial disparities in such stops.
State Attorney General Chris Koster's office released a report Wednesday showing that black motorists were 69 percent more likely than whites to be pulled over, based on their proportionate share of the driving-age population. That rate was 75 percent in 2014, which was the highest since data collection began in 2000.
Furthermore, police continue to arrest and search black and Hispanic drivers at rates "significantly higher than white drivers, even though white drivers are more frequently found to have contraband," according to Koster's analysis.
The treatment of blacks by the police has gotten a lot of attention in Missouri and elsewhere since the August 2014 fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Despite the record-high racial disparity in traffic stops in 2014, neither Republican-led chamber of the Legislature allowed a full vote this year on Democratic-sponsored bills aimed at curbing racial profiling.
News from The Associated Press
"GTP"