{"id":22769,"date":"2021-03-03T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=22769"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:11:21","slug":"ten-years-worth-of-nc-traffic-stop-data-reveal-racial-disparities-in-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=22769","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ten years\u2019 worth of NC traffic stop data reveal racial disparities in searches&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/pulse.ncpolicywatch.org\/2021\/03\/02\/ten-years-worth-of-nc-traffic-stop-data-reveals-racial-disparities-in-searches\/#sthash.azE87a9R.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">The Progressive Pulse<\/a>: &#8220;North Carolina law enforcement officers searched Black drivers and\/or their vehicles almost twice as often as their white counterparts, and at a much higher rate than drivers of other races, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/files.nc.gov\/ncdps\/documents\/files\/Justice-Analysis-Review_March2021_PQ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>\u00a0released by the North Carolina Criminal Justice Analysis Center on Monday. The Center within the Governor\u2019s Crime Commission is charged with compiling and analyzing criminal justice data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police searched Black drivers\/vehicles 45 of every 1,000 stops, compared with 23 of 1,000 stops for white drivers\/vehicles.&nbsp;&nbsp;Law enforcement searched drivers\/vehicles of other races 14 of 1,000 stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traffic stop data for 2009-2019 show that while the rate of searches of Hispanic drivers\/vehicles has declined, Black drivers\u2019 search rate has remained high.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive Pulse: &#8220;North Carolina law enforcement officers searched Black drivers and\/or their vehicles almost twice as often as their white counterparts, and at a much higher rate than drivers of other races, according to a\u00a0report\u00a0released by the North Carolina Criminal Justice Analysis Center on Monday. The Center within the Governor\u2019s Crime Commission is charged&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22770,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769\/revisions\/22770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}