"Nationwide, police use two kinds of vehicle stops: traffic safety stops to deal with violations like speeding or driving under the influence, and stops to root out crime and criminal behavior. In the former, according to Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship, police target the behavior and move on, regardless of race, gender, or age. In the latter, police use more discretion. They search for minor infractions—driving too slowly, malfunctioning lights, failure to signal—which become pretext for an intrusive search of driver and vehicle. “Virtually all of the wide racial disparity in the likelihood of being stopped,” note the book’s authors, “is concentrated in one category of stops: discretionary stops for minor violations of the law.”"
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