Speed trap.
"This analysis is important, because it documents a new dimension to the complex issue of racial disparities in traffic stops," said Northeastern University criminologist Jack McDevitt, who is studying the same citations for the state. "People have looked at the outcome of a traffic stop as an arrest, or not an arrest. Now you also have a financial outcome that's tied to who gets a ticket."
| Read the Boston Globe's"Speed trap: Who gets a ticket, who gets a break?" series and download an explanation of their traffic-ticket study's methodology in PDF format.
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