Racial Demographics Explain the Link Between Racial Disparities in Traffic Stops and County-Level Racial Attitudes
研究发现，美国县级交通拦截中黑人与白人的差异与当地居民的种族态度相关，而这种关联主要由白人居民比例较高的人口构成驱动。
Disparities in the treatment of Black and White Americans in police stops are pernicious and widespread. We examined racial disparities in police traffic stops by leveraging data on hundreds of U.S. counties from the Stanford Open Policing Project and corresponding county-level data on implicit and explicit racial attitudes from the Project Implicit research website. We found that Black-White traffic-stop disparities are associated with county-level implicit and explicit racial attitudes and that this association is attributable to racial demographics: Counties with a higher proportion of White residents had larger racial disparities in police traffic stops. We also examined racial disparities in several poststop outcomes (e.g., arrest rates) and found that they were not systematically related to racial attitudes, despite evidence of disparities. These findings indicate that racial disparities in counties' traffic stops are reliably linked to counties' racial attitudes and demographic compositions.