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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Black, Hispanic and white drivers are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched and arrested, a federal study found.
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based on interviews by the Census Bureau with nearly 64,000 people age 16 or over.



My bogo meter is ringing here - there doesn't appear to have been any effort to see if the data is accurate: people do lie to pollsters.

Besides this is not as interesting as other questions such as:

- stops that yield no citations or arrests
- stops that yield no more than a written warning
- stops that result in no charges
- stops that in which charges are brought but do not result in a guilty finding or plea.

After all, if they did it, who cares what the racial ratios are? But if the cops stop minorities pointlessly a lot more often than whites that might be noteworthy.

And let's throw out the LAPD stats to avoid skewing the national stats on minority abuse...
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