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Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue unbiased tickets − new study from Chicago

  • Written by Wenfei Xu, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
imageTraffic stops are meant to make the streets safer, but police interactions with Black drivers can escalate quickly.deepblue4you via Getty

Traffic stops by Chicago police have more than doubled over the past nine years in what the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights group, is calling the “new stop-and-frisk.”

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