Editing Driving while black (section)

==Analysis==
In a 2016 report, [[Vice News]] and a group from the [[Seton Hall Law School]] found that 70 percent of all police traffic stops in [[Bloomfield, New Jersey]] were against black and Latino drivers even though 60 percent of the residents were white. According to Bloomfield's police director, Samuel A DeMaio, violations were 576 against Hispanics, 574 against blacks and 573 against whites from a recent period. In explaining why blacks and Hispanics had disproportionately more violations than whites, DeMaio said it was not racial profiling nor was it a case of blacks and Latinos being worse drivers. Rather it was because police were concentrated much more in "high-crime" areas, inhabited disproportionally by black and Latino residents, rather than in low-crime areas where whites largely reside. Vice News noticed a heavy police presence in the "high-crime" area where police vigorously pursue misdemeanor violations using tactics such as tailing drivers until they make a mistake, or searching a stopped vehicle for violations that may be unrelated to the reason for the police stop. The Seton Hall group concluded the police were effectively raising revenue for the municipality from people living in or driving through the "high-crime" area.<ref name="Vice-2016-04-11">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjXWjtkrFUk  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/AjXWjtkrFUk |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title=Driving While Black in New Jersey |publisher=Vice News |date=11 April 2016 |access-date=2016-05-22 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Denbeaux|first1=Mark|last2=Kearns|first2=Kelley|last3=Ricciardelli|first3=Michael J.|title=Racial Profiling Report: Bloomfield Police and Bloomfield Municipal Court|date=7 April 2016|publisher=Social Science Research Network|language=en|doi=10.2139/ssrn.2760382|ssrn=2760382|s2cid=130842481}}</ref>

Police-Public Contact Surveys by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics found that white, black, and Hispanic drivers were stopped by police at similar rates in 2002, 2005, and 2008.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp08.pdf | title=Contacts between Police and the Public, 2008 | publisher=US Department of Justice |author1=Christine Eith  |author2=Matthew R. Durose | date=October 2011 | access-date=September 13, 2016}}</ref>