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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27,20191 HILLTOPVIEWSONLINE.COM
2 NEWS
APD releases report detailing racial breakdown of traffic stops, arrests
4,000
2,000
Black
White
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/edims/pio/document.cfm?id=315735
Police Blotter
El Gallo
Criminal Trespassing
6:30 PM
Mar. 2, 2019
Hunt Hall
Criminal Mischief $750 < $2500
12:51 PM
Mar. 3, 2019
Closed - No investigative leads
BMH
Theft $100 < $750
12:00 PM
Mar. 10, 2019
Closed - No investigative leads
East Woods
Criminal Mischief - Graffitti
6:49 PM
Mar. 12, 2019
Closed - No investigative leads
RCC
Theft < $100
5:00 PM
Mar. 15, 2019
Closed - No investigative leads
East Woods
Criminal Mischief - Graffitti
10:27 AM
Mar. 18, 2019
Resolution
Location
Incident
Time
Date
Closed by arrest
Closed - No investigative leads
[whites, blacks, and Hispanics], the hit
was almost identical,” Manley said.
By CHRISTINE SANCHEZ
@ christineliza3
problem that hasn’t been “completely fixed." CHRISTINE SANCHEZ / HILLTOP VIEWS
“I think it’s more of an endemic problem all Traffic stops in Austin are broken down by race, according to information provided by the Austin
around the country," Flores said. Police Department. Police Commissioner Manley insists that police officers do not initially know
the race of the person being pulled over.
UPD during the year.
The Office of the Police Monitor is respon-
sible for taking these complaints.
In 2018, the office did not take complaints
for the majority of the year because the city
did not renew their contract with the office.
The contract, called the Meet and Confer
agreement, expired in Jan. 2018 and was not
renewed until Nov. 2018.
Manley said that despite this, citizens are al-
ways able to make racial profiling complaints
rate says that racial profiling has been a constant
The report also includes formal and infor-
mal racial profiling complaints made against
A recent article in the Austin American-
Statesman revealed that Hispanic people are
the most likely of any race to be searched in
traffic stops in Austin.
The data comes from the 2018 Racial Pro-
filing Report produced yearly by the Austin
Police Department.
The racial profiling report is comprised of
data from motor vehicle stops, searches, and directly to APD.
search results. In 2017, the Office of the Police Monitor re-
All of these are categorized by year, race and ceived 10 formal complaints and 60 informal
ethnicity. complaints.
APD made 122,185 stops in 2018, and In 2018, they received 4 formal and 9 infor-
searched 12,554 people from those stops. mal complaints.
Out of those, 5,514 of those searched were According to Manley, APD works with Alex
Hispanic, 3,704 were white, and 3,072 were del Carmen, a state expert on racial profiling
black. and crime analysis, to produce the report.
Brian Manley, APD’s Chief of Police, says Carmen thinks racial profiling data is im-
that there is a misconception that police of- portant to analyze to ensure there isn’t a prob-
ficers know the race of the person they re stop- lem with racial profiling within police depart-
ping in traffic stops. ments.
He says that one important factor to look Carmen said that Austin Police officers are
out for in the report is the hit rate, which is evaluated by their supervisors and random
the percentage of time that contraband or reviews are conducted by the Office of Police
other incriminating items are found on those Oversight to ensure officers are not targeting
searched in traffic stops. people in traffic stops based on their race.
"Between three predominant ethnicities, Junior computer science major Elliot Flores
Amount of Vehicle Searches
by Race in Austin in 2018
6,000
o
Hispanic
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