"Blacks are almost twice as likely to be pulled over as whites - even though whites drive more on average," "blacks are more likely to be searched following a stop," and "just by getting in a car, a black driver has about twice the odds of being pulled over, and about four times the odds of being searched."
-"Suspect Citizens," Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp and Kelsey Shoub
- 2012 - 2014, 85 percent of vehicle stops, 90 percent of citations and 93 percent of arrests in Ferguson Missouri were to black citizens according to the Justice Department
- JoinedJune 26, 2018
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