never had to worry about being pulled over by a cop for "driving while white" I was pulled over twice in three days in Los Altos a few years ago for a light be

never had to worry about being pulled over by a cop for "driving while white" I was pulled over twice in three days in Los Altos a few years ago for a light being out, both times by non-white officers. Last spring, I was pulled over in Sunnyvale for expired tags (I paid on time; DMV was horribly behind) by an Asian officer. While I was politely volunteering my documents and proof of payment, a second unit responded with a Latino officer. They held me for 45 minutes for what should have been a wave-off. To justify their time, they wrote me a fix-it ticket (which required two trips to the courthouse and 5 months to clear. Now, I'll wager that if the ethnicities were reversed, the average driver has been sufficiently conditioned by narrative to assume a racist motivation... even if pulled over from behind at night, where it's impossible to know driver ethnicity before the stop.