MO Attorney General Chris Koster Says Blacks Still Likely to be Pulled Over by Police More Than Whites

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster releases report on race and vehicle stops, found that blacks still more likely to be pulled over by police, slightly down from 2010.

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

The Missouri Attorney General's office today released its report on race and vehicle stops, and found that blacks were slightly less likely in 2010 to be pulled over by police than the year before.

However, black motorists in Missouri remain more likely to be pulled over than whites, a disparity that has widened over the last decade of keeping such numbers.

The report analyzes more than 1.6 million stops by 630 law enforcement agencies statewide. The state has been required to keep the information since 2000, but its methodologies have been widely discredited by critics since the report compares stops to the racial makeup of those who live in a community and not those who drive through it.

Read the entire report: http://ago.mo.gov/VehicleStops/.