Vermont Becomes 8th State to Confirm It Stops More Blacks Than Whites in Traffic Stops!

[fun n serious]

Loads of traffic-stop data collected by the Vermont State Police over the last five years confirms an occurrence Black Americans are all too familiar with. A recent report revealed stark disparities between the rates at which Black drivers were stopped by Vermont police compared to whites.
According to officials, African-American drivers pulled over by state police were five times more likely to be searched than white drivers, despite the fact that contraband was more likely to be found in the cars of white motorists, ABC News reports.

http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/05/26/vermont-becomes-8th-state-to-confirm-it-stops-more-blacks-than-whites-in-traffic-stops-implicit-bias-to-blame/?utm_content=bufferd21a7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Why hasn't Bernie tried to do more in his state to help with civil rights?!

[noiretextatique]

1. What did Hillary do for those stats as a NY Senator?

NY must be close to #1 on your list. I eagerly await your response

[fun n serious]

3. This is about VERMONT and Bernie

Debate that issue or make a new OP for yours.

[AgingAmerican]

5. How is it about Bernie?

??

[HooptieWagon]

23. What does Sanders have to do with Vermont police?

Maybe the issue should be directed to the Governor, who I recall is a Clinton Superdelegate.

[Armstead]

27. THere's 50 states....And Bernie is not a traffic cop or even a police chief

When you find out the statics for the other 49 states for a comparison, and don't make an unrelated issue an exploitative campaign issue, General Discussion is a great place to talk about a myriad of topics.

[merrily]

2. Why didn't Hillary do more about these issues NY when she was Senator?

Do you get the difference between a US Senator and a Mayor or Governor?

Or do you just get more desperate every day for crap to post about Sanders?

Hmmm?

[fun n serious]

7. This OP is about VERMONT not NY

According to officials, African-American drivers pulled over by state police were five times more likely to be searched than white drivers, despite the fact that contraband was more likely to be found in the cars of white motorists, ABC News reports.
Per a study conducted by the Institute on Race and Justice at Boston’s Northeastern University, the percentage of traffic-stops resulting in searches was 5.1 for Blacks and 1.1 for whites. The study also revealed that contraband was found 80 percent of the time in searches involving white drivers, but only 68.5 percent of the time with Black drivers, the news site states.

[merrily]

11. I know what the OP says.I also know that US Senators don't control state police.

Do you?

I also know many Hillary supporters on DU are utterly shameless about double standards.

Are you?

[HooptieWagon]

25. Vermont Gov is a CLINTON Superdelegate.

Why isn't Clinton fixing the problem?

[B Calm]

33. +1 LOL

[CorkySt.Clair]

4. But i thought it was a socialist utopia?

[k8conant]

6. That's a deceptive headline, albeit it is the original...

A recent report revealed stark disparities between the rates at which Black drivers were stopped by Vermont police compared to whites.

I'm not in favor of higher rates either, of course, but that's not the same as "More Blacks Than Whites".

[fun n serious]

9. More from link

Per a study conducted by the Institute on Race and Justice at Boston’s Northeastern University, the percentage of traffic-stops resulting in searches was 5.1 for Blacks and 1.1 for whites. The study also revealed that contraband was found 80 percent of the time in searches involving white drivers, but only 68.5 percent of the time with Black drivers, the news site states.

[k8conant]

14. Still rates...

[fun n serious]

15. This is shameful

African-American drivers feel the squeeze when it comes to auto insurance too. A study conducted by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) found that African-Americans living in predominately Black communities were being hit with much higher auto insurance rates. Per Atlanta Black Star, the report showed that while white drivers were charged an average of $622 a year, Black drivers were paying up to $1,060, a 70% increase.

[k8conant]

21. Yes, it is shameful...

it should stop yesterday, if not sooner.

[EndElectoral]

8. This is probably true in 50 states.Good for Vermont for acknowledging it and now hopefully fixing it

[fun n serious]

12. It is a problem nationwide and should be addressed.

It's too bad it took a law suit to force hands..

[glinda]

26. I agree. Wish MN would do the same. It has been

mentioned in buried news articles here.

[B Calm]

10. You still playing the race card? Trying your best to paint Bernie as a racist makes

your candidate look pretty bad. You should stop before other Hillary supporters scold you.

[HooptieWagon]

13. What an idiotic claim.

i guess the desparation from Castle Bansalot over the OIG report has the delicate flowers all a-Twitter. The DoJ indictment will result in an epic meltdown for the ages...lmao.

[B Calm]

16. OP has 23 hidden posts in the last 90 days. I believe the OP is a disruptor.

[katsy]

17. Excellent they acknowledge the problem

now these states can work on fixing it.

Racial profiling was a big problem in NYC for years & im sure still is. But a judge ruled the practice unconstitutional:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/opinion/racial-discrimination-in-stop-and-frisk.html

And I won't be a hypocrite and so intellectually dishonest that I would lay this travesty of justice at the feet of former senator HRC because it is not her fault. The resolulation lay with the courts and I don't expect senators to triple multitask and do everybody's job.

That would be a lie. You know a lot about spreading lies? Idk just asking.

[k8conant]

18. Illinois is on the list also...

Why hasn't Hillary, who was born there, done something?

[mmonk]

19. Where does Arkansas and South Carolina fall?

[mythology]

20. For the same reason nobody else did

The data wasn't known because previously it wasn't something that many (white) people thought that much about. But due to a series of high profile race issues, that has been brought to the forefront.

Sure Sanders shoulders some of the blame, but so does everybody else. We as a society fell woefully short on this.

[fun n serious]

36. I agree.

Given the rise of Donald Trump. i think our natrion needs these issues talked about more.

[Matt_in_STL]

22. More email deflection. Hillary put people in danger, so let's talk about traffic stops.

[Tarheel_Dem]

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This is just too much race baiting.

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Explanation: It isn't "race baiting" when it's reporting the truth. However, I don't see how Bernie is to blame.

[B Calm]

29. Wow, that looks like a jury of our peers. Kinda lopsided.

[fun n serious]

34. Looks fair. Thank you

[KingFlorez]

28. He's good on civil rights already

So good that he blanks black leaders in Vermont

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/vermont-s-black-leaders-we-were-invisible-to-bernie-sanders.html

Instead, remembers Curtiss Reed Jr., the executive director of the group, it became something of a showdown. Sanders “was just really dismissive of anything that had to do with race and racism, saying that they didn’t have anything to do with the issues of income inequality,” Reed told The Daily Beast.

[fun n serious]

32. Wow!

smh!

[workinclasszero]

30. What did Bernie do about this crap in his home state?

[B Calm]

31. Seriously, can we stop with the race baiting?

[SheenaR]

35. This is ridiculous lol

I got pulled over a few weeks back. Wish I had known I could just call Senator Jack Reed to take care of this.

Oh wait, Senators have jack shit to do with this.

[Downwinder]

37. All the more reason to elect him to an administrative

position as President so he has the authority to address these issues.

[fun n serious]

38. His resume

says Wallstreet and nothing else.

[Downwinder]

39. I thought it said CORE.

[cali]

40. This is actually a pretty good model of how to combat this shit

The data was collected by the State Police, but analyzed by researchers from Northeastern University.

Find any other state that is investing more into reform on this issue.



<snip>

Data collected over the last five years shows that ethnic minority drivers are stopped, cited and searched by the Vermont State Police at a higher rate than white drivers.

According to the research, state troopers search black drivers at five times the rate they do white drivers.

<snip>
McDevitt and Janice Iwama, a doctoral candidate at Northeastern University, presented their report to an audience of about 100, including Vermont State Police command staff from around the state, Tuesday evening at Vermont Law School.

State civil rights leaders, members of the Vermont State Police Fair and Impartial Policing Committee, lawmakers and others joined the discussion

<snip>

Throughout the evening, officials emphasized that the data analysis is not the end of the project, but a midpoint in a longer project.

Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn said the report is “part of a process that we are going to utilize as we go forward.”

“From what we’ve seen, there are two types of law enforcement agencies in this country,” Flynn said. “There are those with departments that are running away from what the data’s telling them as far as bias-free policing, and there are those that are moving toward it.”

“We have chosen to move toward it, to make ourselves better,” Flynn said.

Much, much more.
http://vtdigger.org/2016/05/25/racial-disparities-documented-in-state-police-traffic-stops/

[cali]

41. Your op is petty malicious misleading shit.

[Bluenorthwest]

42. The States that are owning it should be encouraged. Trying to blame Bernie is like laying NY's

various Rockefeller Drug Law abuses on Hillary which would be absurd.
Also, let's all thank the Glorious Amnesty for allowing this crap to define our discourse.