Chicago Police Are Arresting Thousands More Black Drivers After Traffic

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Traffic stops by Chicago police have more than doubled over the past nine years in what the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights group, is calling the “new stop-and

Chicago Police Stop More Black Drivers, but Cameras Are Unbiased

Chicago police pulled over hundreds of thousands more drivers than they previously reported, but found guns in fewer than 1 out of every 150 stops, according to a new

A new study by Block Club Chicago highlights more evidence that Chicago police are arresting thousands more Black drivers after traffic stops than what’s being reported. The

According to a report from Block Club Chicago’s Pascal Sabino, the state-produced Illinois Traffic and Pedestrian Stop Study found that local police stopped over

Expansive new study finds racial bias in Chicago traffic stops
CPD traffic stops are down this year, but critics say there are
CPD Officers Arresting Many More Black Drivers Than Reported

Data show traffic stops are down more than 40% this year, but some residents and community advocates want Chicago Police to enact formal policy changes to reduce the

But an analysis of gun arrests that year found that more than 2,300 people were arrested on gun charges and also cited for a minor traffic violation during the same encounter,

Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue

The study, published Tuesday, found that on a street with an even 50-50 split of Black and white drivers, Black drivers would account for approximately 70% of the police stops

Traffic stops are meant to make the streets safer, but police interactions with Black drivers can escalate quickly. MattGush from Getty Images by Wenfei Xu, Cornell

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(and) are nine times more likely to be stopped 10 times than white drivers to be stopped.” “CPD’s own data shows that officers disproportionately target Black and Brown

And much like stop and frisk, police disproportionately stop Black drivers in Chicago, according to our latest study examining racial bias in traffic enforcement. Our research, published

Traffic stops and searches are increasingly costing city taxpayers and still disproportionately targeting Black drivers, the I-Team found after examining court records and police data.

Expansive new study finds racial bias in Chicago traffic stops

Chicago Police officers have secretly pulled over as many as 20,000 more drivers per month in the past year than they have reported publicly, in violation of a 2003 law requiring

By: Joshua Levin, Staff Attorney. Data reported by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) about police traffic stops in 2021

Like Lamb, an overwhelming majority of them — 81% — were Black. Calls to overhaul Chicago police traffic-stop practices have intensified since a driver named Dexter

Traffic stops by Chicago police have more than doubled over the past nine years in what the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights group, is calling the “new stop-and

A new study by Block Club Chicago highlights more evidence that Chicago police are arresting thousands more Black drivers after traffic stops than what’s being reported. The

Our research, published in June 2024, used data on the racial composition of drivers on every street in Chicago. We then compared who is driving on roads with who is

Chicago police traffic stops have increased after CPD agreed to limit the use of stop-and-frisk, data shows. Black drivers are the most targeted. Black drivers are the most

Their date showed Black drivers were six times more likely to get pulled over by CPD. The study analyzed more than 4.6 million traffic stops over 19 years in 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.

of color as Black and Latine drivers are often disproportionately stopped, searched, and arrested. Further, the strategy takes time away from addressing more pressing public safety needs like

63% of traffic stops in Chicago targeted African Americans last year, state report shows “Black drivers from across the state have raised concerns for years that police are more

Although public records show that officers are more likely to find contraband when searching white drivers’ cars than when searching Black or Latino drivers’ cars, “[t]he data

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