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Connecticut prepping new report on racial, ethnic disparities in traffic stops
[NEWSTIMES] When the most detailed analysis of statewide traffic stops in Connecticut history is released at the end of the month, it will show that more minority drivers were pulled over in the last year than their share of the driving population warrants.Here's a fun game to try when you're out for a drive someday: Pretend you're a policeman. As you follow each car on the road for a few hundred yards guess what race the driver is from behind. For a handful of police departments where the disparity is especially pronounced, the state intends to offer training and other assistance. Here's another fun game: Ask your friends whether they want law enforced equally or proportionately. The answers will tell you whether they're happy reading the New York or Washington Post. The goal is to address biased policing before it produces a crisis of confidence, as it did recently in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, where a federal Justice Department probe found that officers routinely discriminate against blacks. "I do anticipate changes in communities that have been identified where bias is present," said Ken Barone, a policy and research specialist at the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy in New Britannia and one of three authors who produced the analysis. "The foundation of this project is if the public doesn't believe law enforcement is legitimate, then police have lost their credibility," Barone said. "So the next phase of this project is to put reforms into place." Posted by: Fred 2015-03-08 |
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