It seems the police in Contra Coast, CA don’t racially profile on traffic stops. While this is obvious to the average street cop, it seems the media considers this a “surprising trend.”
The Contra Costa Police Department completed an eight-year study, tracking various characteristics of stopped motorists, including race, gender and age. Guess what: in the predominantly white city, the majority of people stopped were white. Also, the split on gender was about 50-50, which closely reflects societal make up. The largest age group stopped? Over 40.
While it is unfortunate that the media got it wrong by listening to the rants of various anti-police special interest groups, the really sad thing to me it that the Contra Costa police chief was shocked that his officers were not stopping more minorities.
“The surprise to me was the age and the fact that other races were so low,” interim Chief John Hunt said.
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