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Traffic Stops and Race: Police Conduct May Bend to Local Biases
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16 minutes
Released:
Mar 30, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
New research covering tens of millions of U.S. traffic stops found that Black drivers were more likely than White drivers to be stopped by police in regions with a more racially biased White population. Pierce Ekstrom, a researcher at the University of Nebraska and lead author on one of two concurrent papers in the journal Psychological Science talks about how these studies shed new light on how countywide attitudes toward race correlate with local policing. Read the news release and watch the video segment here.
Released:
Mar 30, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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