Our Lips Are Sealed: Whatever Happened to the Moorhead Traffic Stop Data?
Photo by Raul Gomez
By Zach Kobrinsky on January 31, 2008
Mark Hansel is a professor at MSUM. He is middle-aged and he is white. Near Mark sits Muhammad. Muhammad is an MSUM student and has been a member of our community since age 11. Muhammad is Black, and he is almost six times more likely to be pulled over in Moorhead than Mark. Cindy is a woman in her mid-30s. She is a paralegal, has two kids, and is Hispanic. Cindy is 70 percent more likely to be pulled over than Mark. These were some of the findings of the 2002 Traffic Stop report by Mark. Needless to say, he was the center of attention at the Traffic Stop Data Group meeting Wednesday at PEPP (People Escaping Poverty Project) in Moorhead.
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