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“Black male drivers are two to three times more likely to experience a search than white males, even when controlling for other predictors of search. … Thus, racial disparities in traffic stop searches cannot be ‘explained away.'"

Race, Place, and Context: The Persistence of Race Effects in Traffic Stop Outcomes in the Face of Situational, Demographic, and Political Controls
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
Vol. 5 issue 3, pp. 481–508,
2020
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