Here is the data, there were 22687 total traffic stops as reported by EPD. There are lots of different questions that we might want to answer based off of this data. As you know, over the past many years Police Departments have been under scrutiny for how they treat people of color, specifically black people. In the Summer of 2020, the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police was the latest in a string of innocent black lives lost in their interactions with police (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52905408). The ensuing protests and the Black Lives Matter Movement have put police treatment of black Americans in the spotlight. For that reason, we will specifically focus on data about traffic stops of black drivers throughout this lesson. Let's take a look at Data from Evanston. Clearly this could be an issue for any race, or gender, or a lot of other things, but for the purpose of this lesson we'll focus specifically on black vs. non-black drivers in Evanston.
Remember, this is traffic stops by EPD from 1/1/20 - 7/23/20 broken down by race.
| Race |
Number |
| White |
12407 |
| Black |
6887 |
| Hispanic |
1784 |
| Asian |
1465 |
| Unknown |
144 |
| Total |
22687 |
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