ACLU: New Data Reveals Milwaukee Police Stops Are About Race and Ethnicity

ACLU: New Data Reveals Milwaukee Police Stops Are About Race and Ethnicity by Nusrat Choudhury:

For years, Black and Latino residents of Milwaukee have protested the fact that they and their neighborhoods have been consistently and unfairly targeted for overzealous police stops. They were right to do so. New expert evidence unmasks the city’s stop-and-frisk program for what it is: a program that encourages routine stops of individuals that are without a sufficient legal basis and that are often based on the individual’s race or ethnicity.

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