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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even when there is seemingly nothing wrong[/quote] Same reason some people think police tend to stop cars with out of state plates more often... Same reason some people think police tend to stop cars with tinted windows more often... Same reason some people think police tend to stop cars with rims and custom paint jobs more often... Same reason some people think police tend to stop cars with black drivers more often... Same reason some people think police tend to stop cars with latino drivers more often... Same reason some people think police tend to stop cars with middle eastern drivers more often... Same reason some people think police tend to stop cars with women drivers more often... Same reason some people think police tend to stop cars with teen drivers more often... Same reason some people think police tend to stop cars with interracial couples more often... Same reason some people think police tend to stop cars with certain bumper stickers more often... The list goes on and on and you know why? Cause everyone thinks its all about them and their problems. Cause everyone thinks its absolutely impossible for anyone else to be as burdened or as troubled or as tortured as them AND cause if they look for it hard enough everyone can find evidence everywhere of racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, classism, homophobia, religious intolerance...the list goes on and on and similarly the presumptions about the police targeting one specific group go on and on as well. Gimmie a break. [/quote] I do not know about the rest of your list but I know that studies have shown that police officers stop black drivers more often than others. [/quote] For example, https://www.aclu.org/cases/driving-while-black-maryland[/quote] Well, blacks in America commit most crimes at rates 2-5 times that of the white population. It's entirely possible that black drivers are getting pulled over because they're breaking traffic laws more. For example: http://inspire.stat.ucla.edu/unit_04/racial.pdf From the article: "The study involved photographing tens of thousands of drivers on the turnpike last spring while clocking speed with a radar gun. It found that black drivers sped much more than other drivers, according to three people who have reviewed the unreleased report. The racial gap was far wider than officials had expected and, in the politically charged controversies over profiling, the data could be used by defenders of the state police to argue that one reason black drivers are stopped more often than whites is that they are more likely to speed." And: "Instead, the study concluded that blacks make up 16 percent of the drivers on the turnpike and 25 percent of the speeders in the 65 m.p.h. zones, where complaints of profiling have been most common." There are other studies that find the same thing, but people don't like the results.[/quote]
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