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  • Associate Professor and Director, Doctoral Program in Urban Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
Traffic stops are meant to make the streets safer, but police interactions with Black drivers can escalate quickly. deepblue4you via Getty

Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue unbiased tickets − new study from Chicago

Wenfei Xu, Cornell University; David Levinson, University of Sydney; Michael J Smart, Rutgers University, and Nebiyou Yonas Tilahun, University of Illinois Chicago

‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.

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