Traffic Stops

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January 4, 2024
Black people accounted for nearly 13% of traffic stops in California in 2022, far above their 5% share of the…
June 29, 2023
Hundreds of Connecticut state police troopers falsified information on at least 26,000 traffic stops from 2014 to 2021, skewing reports…
September 29, 2022
A proposal would ban Brooklyn Center police from pulling over motorists for minor infractions like expired tags or cracked windshields.
Mississippi roadblocks thegrio.com
February 26, 2022
A lawsuit says Jackson, Miss., police are violating people's constitutional rights with roadblocks in majority-Black neighborhoods
January 15, 2022
The head of the Michigan State Police pledged changes after a report found that Black drivers were disproportionately pulled over…
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October 20, 2021
24-year-old Jermaine Jones Jr. from Georgia has died after being tased by police when drugs were found in his SUV…
Police Car thegrio.com
March 24, 2021
Lee Ray Boykin Jr. has been arrested and charged in the assault of two women. FBI Houston posted an image…
Illinois
January 15, 2019
Law enforcement in Illinois tend to stop and search nonwhite drivers more often than whites the new ACLU study shows
July 11, 2016
Recent police shootings have overtaken the news recently, country singer Coffey Anderson made a video giving advice on handling traffic…
August 22, 2015
REPORT - One police officer was caught on camera trying to pressure a driver into supporting a police fundraiser by…
July 31, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - George Zimmerman, recently acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin,…