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“The higher the % of Black residents in a city, the higher the % of the municipal budget derived from court fines and fees. In… majority-White cities… Black motorists make up a significant number of traffic stops… [and] are still policed for revenue."

Racial States of Municipal Governance: Policing Bodies and Space for Revenue in North St. Louis County, MO

Law & Inequality

Rios, Jodi

Vol. 37 Issue 2, pp. 235–308, 2019

https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/lawineq/vol37/iss2/3/

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