Racial Profiling Analysis: LAPD Searches Blacks And Latinos More Often [latimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 10/10/197:22 PM

By Kareen Wynter, Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2019

Los Angeles police officers search blacks and Latinos far more often than whites during traffic stops, even though whites are more likely to be found with illegal items, a Times analysis has found. The analysis, the first in a decade to calculate racial breakdowns of searches and other actions by LAPD officers after they pull over vehicles, comes amid growing nationwide scrutiny over racial disparities in policing.

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