A big problem driving the 2014 unrest in Ferguson was black motorists getting stopped disproportionately. The gap between them and white motorists is now wider. zakcheneyrice writes
Demonstrators chant, “Hands up, don’t shoot,” in protest of the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Ferguson, Missouri, was the site of riots five years ago after Police Officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager.
The failure to remedy this problem speaks to the entrenchment of structural inequality, according to observers. “I understand the status quo to be one of structural racism, poverty, overinvestment in the carceral system, and policing and prosecution,” Blake Strode, executive director of the St. Louis–based legal-advocacy organization ArchCity Defenders, told the Times. “That is as real today in 2019 as it was five years ago in 2014.” The fallout is both irritating and costly.
There are limitations to this methodology, including that people who get pulled over don’t necessarily live in the neighborhoods they’re driving through, creating a disconnect between the resident population and the motorists on the road. Eligon’s reporting shows nonetheless that local traffic courts were packed with black people, who composed the vast majority of those facing citations both in majority-black systems, like Ferguson’s, and majority-white ones, like neighboring St. Ann’s.
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