An officer conducts a traffic stop in Austin, an area on the Far West Side of Chicago that ranks No. 1 in the city in recent years for the number of drivers pulled over during traffic stops.
Matt Kiefer
An officer conducts a traffic stop in Austin, an area on the Far West Side of Chicago that ranks No. 1 in the city in recent years for the number of drivers pulled over during traffic stops.
Matt Kiefer
Two decades after the law was enacted, a WBEZ investigation finds that Illinois traffic stops of Black drivers have reached a 20-year high.
An officer conducts a traffic stop in Austin, an area on the Far West Side of Chicago that ranks No. 1 in the city in recent years for the number of drivers pulled over during traffic stops.
Matt Kiefer
The Illinois Traffic Stop Statistical Study Act was widely hailed as a tool that would change police practices and prevent officers from disproportionately pulling over Black drivers.
In fact, Black drivers have only become more likely to be stopped since the law went into effect.
Reset learns more about the findings.
GUESTS: Matt Kiefer, WBEZ data editor, digital
Alden Loury, WBEZ data projects editor
