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they gave out. To improve their performance on that metric, they were allegedly told to target minority neighborhoods.Williams claims that there were “directives from leadership to go to minority neighborhoods to write tickets because of the belief that it would be easier to write multiple citations on every stop.
By contrast, officers were allegedly told that they should not respond to calls in “minority-filled areas north of Bannister, west of 435, south of the river, because those people do not vote the same way as the people out south, east, and north.” Racial profiling is a violation of the federal Civil Rights Act.reported in 2017 that Black residents received 60 percent of traffic tickets in the city, despite making up just 30 percent of the population.
“Historically, African Americans have been getting stopped for music, for tint, wheels, for just about anything, especially in the inner cities,” Phillip Brooks, a Kansas City lawyer toldWilliams, who is white, claims that other officers subjected him to racist rhetoric, and that he was reprimanded by his superiors after he reported violations. The suit comes months after
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