Daily News | Philadelphia’s driving equality law reduced traffic stops but not racial disparities in its first year
A Philadelphia law that bars police from pulling over drivers for some minor infractions contributed to a decline in the number of traffic stops during its first year, but it did not meet its proponents’ stated goal of reducing racial disparities associated with those stops.
But during that time, the proportion of Black drivers who were pulled over declined at roughly the same rate as white drivers, the analysis shows. And stops for non-targeted reasons, such as running a red light or having excessive window tint, went up by nearly 20%.Thomas said Friday that the legislation achieved its intended goal of reducing the number of Black people pulled over and freed up police to pursue more serious traffic violations.
Cpl. Jasmine Reilly, a spokesperson for the Police Department, said the figures warrant further study and that there could be “any number of reasons for why this reduction isn’t lower,” such as errors in data entry by police, who might pull a driver over for several reasons but say it was for one of the offenses covered by the bill.
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