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The racial composition of road users, traffic citations, and police stops

Published:2024-06-03 Issue:24 Volume:121 Page:
ISSN:0027-8424
Container-title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
language:en
Short-container-title:Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

Author:

Xu Wenfei¹,Smart Michael²^ORCID,Tilahun Nebiyou³^ORCID,Askari Sajad⁴^ORCID,Dennis Zachary⁵,Li Houpu¹^ORCID,Levinson David⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

2. Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

3. Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607

4. Department of Civil, Materials and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607

5. School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Abstract

This paper exploits the potential of Global Positioning System datasets sourced from mobile phones to estimate the racial composition of road users, leveraging data from their respective Census block group. The racial composition data encompasses approximately 46 million trips in the Chicago metropolitan region. The research focuses on the relationship between camera tickets and racial composition of drivers vs. police stops for traffic citations and the racial composition in these locations. Black drivers exhibit a higher likelihood of being ticketed by automated speed cameras and of being stopped for moving violations on roads, irrespective of the proportion of White drivers present. The research observes that this correlation attenuates as the proportion of White drivers on the road increases. The citation rate measured by cameras better matches the racial composition of road users on the links with cameras than do stops by police officers. This study therefore presents an important contribution to understanding racial disparities in moving violation stops, with implications for policy interventions and social justice reforms.

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Link

https://pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2402547121

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