Austin's Weirdly Aggressive Traffic Stops

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Almost two decades ago, Texas started requiring law-enforcement agencies to record demographic information during traffic stops to better understand racial profiling.

The state began requiring even deeper data collection after the 2015 death of Sandra Bland, the black 28-year-old pulled over for failure to signal a lane change, needlessly arrested by a state trooper, and thrown in jail, where she committed suicide 3 days later. Thanks to

The Sandra Bland Act, researchers and reformers can now analyze all traffic stops in Texas by variables including the following:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/austin-aggressive-traffic-stops/586102/