“Racial gap” shows up in Milwaukee traffic stops

In a recent analysis of 46,000 traffic stops, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Ben Poston found that black resident drivers are “seven times as likely to be stopped by city police as a white resident driver.” Additionally, the study found that “Milwaukee police pulled over Hispanic city motorists nearly five times as often as white drivers.”

Poston also reports that “the disparities found in Milwaukee are greater than other large metro police departments where traffic stop data is collected, including Charlotte, Kansas City, Raleigh and St. Louis.”