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It would be interesting to see the traffic stops by state chart paired with state demographics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States ht
by siruncledrew 9y ago
It would be interesting to see the traffic stops by state chart paired with state demographics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...
For example, Montana has a huge discrepancy in black people being stopped more when only .5% of the people in Montana are black.
Further, in states like Colorado and Texas, where the chart shows white people are stopped more, they also have high latino populations (maybe a racial mis-profiling by the police?).
These were just two circumstances off the top of my head that would be interesting to explore more as to why they occur.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y ago> Further, in states like Colorado and Texas, where the chart shows white people are stopped more, they also have high latino populations (maybe a racial mis-profiling by the police?). "Hispanic or Latino" is a separate question from race in most US government statistics. As far as I know, it's usually the case that lighter-skinned Hispanic people are categorized as "white" and darker-skinned Hispanic people are categorized as "other".