Police data suggest that black and white drivers in Ohio cities are equally likely to commit a traffic offense — but that black drivers are far more likely to be pulled over or arrested, a WOSUnews report found. Patrol patterns may be partly to blame.
Some black drivers and pedestrians in Cincinnati say they’ve been unfairly stopped and questioned by police.“It seems to be if you are a minority, you’re a target and you’re automatically doing something wrong,” said Michelle Cameron, a black resident who lives in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Westwood.of hundreds of thousands of police stop data confirms a racial disparity does exist across the state.
The racial makeup of police stops on highways was closer to the overall proportion of the population, suggesting that blacks and whites commit traffic offenses at the same rate. More than half of all sworn Cincinnati officers, about 575, are regularly on patrol to enforce traffic violations, though they have other duties as well. Areas in the city with more violent crime and more calls for service are generally more likely to see a higher police presence, Saunders added.
In daylight, rates were nearly the same. Whites were still pulled over at a lower rate. Of those stopped, 33.5% were white, 64.7% were black, and 1.8% were Asian, mixed, or unknown.For highway stops though, the opposite occurred: whites were pulled over at a rate higher than their city population. In that same time period, in both daylight and darkness, about 68% of those stopped were non-Hispanic whites, about 27% were black, and the rest Asians, Hispanic, or unknown.
A Cincinnati police officer ruined any chance for a quiet moment, Cameron said, pulling up beside her and asking her to leave because the park had closed. The cop in Cameron’s case told an agency investigator that there are “frequent heroin users in the park,” but no cause for suspicion of Cameron or her vehicle is mentioned in a record of the complaint.
Of the more than 225 complaints, just one stop complaint and three discrimination complaints were validated. And in a case last year, an officer claimed he heard a black woman whistle while investigating a prostitution complaint in the West End. The officer handcuffed the woman. The authority didn’t consider discrimination in the case. It determined her alleged whistling constituted enough reasonable suspicion to clear the officer of wrongdoing.
After the man entered a nearby house, the officer yelled for him to come out, telling him he was under arrest. More officers arrived, and a woman and her minor son were forced from the house as officers searched it. Nothing was found. The agency determined the search violated Cincinnati police policies, according to the case record.
It’s unclear if city officials pursued a different but related recommendation. City and police officials didn’t respond directly to questions about whether they now tracked arrests by officers ultimately declined for prosecution. Doing so was suggested in 2017 during an independent review of the city’s effort toward bias-free policing.
“ no cars coming. I got the music in, walking across the street,” Levy said. “It was some petty stuff.” "He automatically assumed it was us,” Jackson said, referring to himself and several other black men who had also left the scene. On the highways, during that same time period, non-Hispanic whites ranged between 57% of those stopped in darkness, to 61% in daylight. During that same time period, Blacks were pulled over at roughly the same rate, from 34% in darkness, 33% in daylight.
Blacks were also searched at a much higher rate in Columbus. Of blacks pulled over, police searched 9.6% in Columbus. In contrast, only 4.8% of non-Hispanic whites were searched. Hispanics had the highest search rate, at 13.7%, although they are a very small slice of the Columbus population overall. “That’s not how we look at calls for service,” she said. “We’re not looking at the race of the victim or suspect.”
Reporters looked at traffic tickets issued between 4:58 p.m. and 9:05 p.m. and noted if each stop happened in daylight or darkness, because of the changing seasons and daylight savings time.
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