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“When higher short-run revenue is necessary, officers shift their limited resources of time to increased targeting of white drivers. … police focus … on people of color in the absence of fiscal distress, despite lower hitrates among these motorists than white drivers."

Fiscal Pressures and Discriminatory Policing: Evidence from Traffic Stops in Missouri
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
Vol. 5 Issue 3, pp. 450–480,
2020
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