EXCLUSIVE: Charlottesville stop-and-frisk data suggests a history of racially motivated policing

[Judi Lynn]

Black residents are far more likely to be stopped by police, even though the city is majority white.
JOSHUA EATON
AUG 23, 2017, 9:31 AM

Black residents of Charlottesville, Virginia, are nine times more likely to be stopped by city police than white residents, according to previous unpublished data obtained by ThinkProgress.

The Charlottesville Police Department made 101 investigative detention, or “stop-and-frisk,” stops in the first six months of this year, the data shows. Of those, around 71 percent were black and 28 percent were white, while the race of 1 person was recorded as unknown. Charlottesville’s population as of the 2010 census was 19 percent black and 69 percent white.

In 54 percent of cases where the person being stopped was black, the stop did not result in any further action by police. Overall, officers took further action, like issuing a summons or making an arrest, in fewer than half the stops: 46 percent.

These numbers are part of a larger trend. In the first nine months of last year, 76 percent of people Charlottesville city police stopped were black, while 23 percent were white and 1 percent unknown, according to a report last year in The Daily Progress.

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https://thinkprogress.org/cville-stop-and-frisk-e884d2504656/