Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Turning A Moment Into A Movement
Episode: The Risk of Driving While Black
Description: "Many police agencies use the traffic code as an excuse to go on a fishing expedition"
Driving while Black and dealing with law enforcement, is one of the most serious and deadly encounters that could happen to a person of color these days.
Researchers studied nearly 100 million traffic stops and found black motorists are more likely to be pulled over.
The new study, undertaken by Ravi Shroff, an assistant professor holding joint appointments at NYU Steinhardt and NYU CUSP, and his colleagues at the Stanford Open Policing Project, found that in a dataset...