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Race is a factor when police stop drivers in more than 90 Virginia communities

The nonprofit justice reform group Julian reviewed data from 107 cities and counties to identify places where racial profiling may be a problem. (Credit: Julian)

Earlier this year, a federal court dismissed charges against a Black man who was stopped by police in Richmond, after his lawyer showed proof of racial bias. 

Now, a Virginia nonprofit has used the same approach to analyze traffic stops by more than a hundred other police departments, as Sandy Hausman reports.

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