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Council Member Cabán presents data on racial disparities in traffic stops and enforcement
1:24:01
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Council Member Cabán presents statistics highlighting significant racial disparities in traffic stops, searches, arrests, and use of force. She argues that these disparities cannot be explained by NYPD's previous justifications about deployment patterns.
- White people account for 21% of stops but only 5% of searches, arrests, and use of force
- Black and Latino individuals account for nearly 90% of searches, arrests, and uses of force while being about 50% of stops
- Cabán challenges NYPD to explain the disparity in post-stop actions
- She highlights an increase in use of force during traffic stops, particularly affecting Black and Latinx drivers
Tiffany Cabán
1:24:01
But talking about that disparity specifically, white people account for 21% of stops.
1:24:13
And this completely throws out your argument about what happens and where the officers are being sent in that determining what happens.
1:24:23
The data that we have for enforcement is from the NYPD's own data.
1:24:29
And we know that white people account for 21% of stops, but only 5% of all searches, arrests, and use of force.
1:24:38
We know that black and Latino folks account for almost 90% of all searches, arrests, and uses of force while being around 50% of the stops.
1:24:49
So we're talking about what happens after the stop is made and then now we're getting into the realm of sort of like propensity which we shouldn't be doing.
1:25:01
That can be the only explainer for this huge disparity because again post stop, I quote, cops have discretion.
1:25:13
Right?
1:25:13
And so I just wanna take a second to outline that in another answer, you threw out terms like, well, the cops, they're there.
1:25:23
There there's Deborah.
1:25:26
The people up here, besides me, don't know what Deborah means.
1:25:30
So you throw that there, they they continue with their questioning, and, like, that's fine.
1:25:34
Then I question you, and I say, after you make the stop, what is it that the officer is seeing in the car of a black or brown man that is so wildly different to result in the search, the seizure, the arrest, the use of force, and you cannot articulate what what you're being seen when that's the plain language of de Boer.
1:25:55
That's de Boer.
1:25:57
So you give it as an answer to somebody else as a term of art that nobody challenges you on.
1:26:01
I ask you it in plain language, what are you seeing?
1:26:04
And you can't articulate it, and that's a problem.
1:26:06
So I wanna know why?
1:26:08
Why white people account for 21% of stops, but only 5% of all searches, arrests, and use of force.
1:26:14
And why black and Latino folks account for 90% of searches, arrests, and use of force, and white people while they're being 50% of the stops.
1:26:22
This debunks your argument around demographics of drivers and resource allocation.
1:26:27
Also want to know, because I should ask a couple questions I guess, I also want to know why there has been an increase in use of force.
1:26:37
So that same report showed that NYPD reported use of force in 53% more instances stemming from traffic stops than 2023.
1:26:44
I wanna know how you explain that.
1:26:47
And I also wanna know then beyond that, why are black and Latinx drivers treated so differently in relationship to use of force knowing that approximately eighty seven percent of drivers subject to use of force cases were black or Latine?
1:27:03
Eighty seven percent.
1:27:07
How do you explain that?
1:27:08
So just to back
Josh Levin
1:27:09
up, what was the thing you said I was trying to evade answering?