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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just want to say that I'm a white person who recognizes this as a real, unjust, dangerous and deadly reality. I will do whatever I can to help change it. It is a shameful practice, and I am ashamed and saddened by it.[/quote]

It's hard to quantify.  The Rand Corporation did a study covering an area that got a lot of complaints about racial profiling in traffic stops.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reprints/2007/RAND_RP1253.pdf

The study covered the proportion of people pulled over during the day (when police could conceivably see the race of the driver) through dusk and at night. No profiling was found.  Indeed, an interesting observation from the paper:

"The first column of Table 1 presents the fraction of blacks among drivers stopped in the full sample. Among drivers stopped during daylight, 49% were black; among drivers stopped when it was dark, 65% were black. Under the restrictive conditions discussed in Section 4.1, we can test for racial profiling by comparing these two numbers. If anything, this comparison suggests “reverse” racial profiling, because it shows that non-black drivers are disproportionately stopped during daylight when visibility is high. "[/quote]

It's Rand.  Did you expect a different result?[/quote]

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