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Jeff Cohen

Thomas Wydra, the police chief of Hamden, Conn., decided to reform his department's traffic stop criteria after they were singled out for stopping minority drivers at disproportionately higher rates than whites. After decreasing the number of defective equipment stops, the number of black drivers pulled over fell by 25 percent.
Some Police Departments Are Rethinking Traffic Stops To Reduce Bias
In Hamden, Conn., minority drivers were pulled over more often than whites for defective equipment, such as broken tail lights. So the police changed their strategy.
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