Measuring racial and ethnic disparities in traffic enforcement with large-scale telematics data.

ABSTRACT: Past studies have found that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely than White drivers to be pulled over by the police for alleged traffic infractions, including a combination of speeding and equipment violations. It has been difficult, though, to measure the extent to which these disparities stem from discriminatory enforcement rather than from differences in offense rates. Here, in the context of speeding enforcement, we address this challenge by leveraging a novel source of telematics data, which include second-by-second driving speed for hundreds of thousands of individuals in 10 major cities across the United States. We find that time spent speeding is approximately uncorrelated with neighborhood demographics, yet, in several cities, officers focused speeding enforcement

SUBMITTER: Cai W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9802422 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature