Hello everyone!
A new report has found that Pacific Islanders in San Francisco are pulled over three times more than usual for traffic stops based on their population.
The study comes from the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. They also found that Blacks were more than four times as likely to be pulled over for a traffic violation while White people and Asians were pulled over at a lower rate for their population.
The report gave recommendations to change the trend. It asked for a ban on biased stops without a suspect description and on the basis of a person’s color, ethnicity, race, national origin, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, dress, appearance, or neighborhood. It also recommended police stop enforcing missing one license plate, expired or missing tags, objects hanging from mirrors and other minor infractions.
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