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86% of all police stops in Ferguson, Missouri (2013) were of Black people [View all]
12.7% of the police stops in Ferguson were of White people (all other recorded racial groups were less than 1%)
92.7% of police arrests in Ferguson were of (you guessed it) Black people
7% of police arrests in Ferguson were of White people.
Of people that were searched, 21.7% of Black people had contraband vs 34% of White people.
Search rates and arrest rates (of people who were stopped by cops) of Blacks in Ferguson are essential double that of Whites in that same town.
The racial profiling report (link here) is astounding.
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