After SPIN! Video: Do statistics justify claims of racial profiling?
Published April 28, 2015
After SPIN! "Question to Cash Michaels – A UNC Chapel Hill research team just concluded a 12 year study of traffic stops by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Even though African Americans make up one-third of the driving age population they are twice as likely to be pulled over, receive traffic tickets and be subjected to roadside searches. They account for 60 percent of the vehicle equipment stops by the department. For years we’ve heard of racial profiling by law enforcement officers. Is there some justification for these statistics or is it racial profiling, driving while black?"
April 28, 2015 at 3:28 pm
Richard L Bunce says:
Since there are no races in our species it must have been based on self identification or officer identification of the persons social construct "race". Since "race" per the Federal government is based on self identification and there is no incorrect answer or an answer that can be validated I am skeptical about all "race" based statistics.
Would need to see the data on whose cars actually have faulty equipment although I would say law enforcement has better things to do than pull over drivers whose vehicles have faulty equipment the officer can observe from some distance... likely mostly burned out bulbs.
