Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data

Re:Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the... by ceejayoz on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:05PM (#36925173)

This is provably the case.

https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2020/05/05/veil-dar...

Daytime, black drivers get disproportionately pulled over. Nighttime, same rate as others. Daylight savings time switch used to eliminate other variables in a really elegant way.

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Re:Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the... by wahnfrieden on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:22PM (#36925347)

This data suggests traffic stops are more often pretext stops rather than in response to dangerous driving

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Re:Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the... by pauldenton on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:50AM (#36942431)

New Jersey Turnpike seems to suggest the opposite. That different groups break traffic rules at different rates, and given the amount of speeding the police under enforced black speeding tickets

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Re:Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the... by ceejayoz on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:14PM (#36945779)

Got a cite you'd like to share? The only one I can see is a 20 year study that the DOJ asked not be released due to methodology problems.

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Re:Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the... by pauldenton on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:07PM (#36993780)

https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-racial-profiling-my... It is a two decade old article. Heather MacDonald has been harping on it for that long

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