Oakwood Traffic Stop Analysis Alleges Racial Discrimination
Black drivers are pulled over in Oakwood more often than other drivers: this is one of the findings in a new report alleging the city also tickets black drivers more often than a neighboring community with a larger African-American population.
ABLE senior attorney Ellis Jacobs says the analysis reveals a pattern of bias.
“And what we discovered was that 33 percent of the tickets given out in Oakwood were given to black drivers. Oakwood is .1 percent black,” Ellis says.