A 21-year veteran of the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department filed a lawsuit last month against the agency, alleging that he was forced to meet illegal ticket quotas and target minority communities.
into the police department's employment practices and alleged discrimination against Black officers.
“But even with these laws in place, there’s either subtle or overt ticket quotas that are occurring all the time,” Jay Beeber, director of policy and research at the National Motorists Association, told Yahoo News. “There are lots of examples around the country where a lot of [cities’] budget comes from tickets, and so for their officers, that’s their main job,” Beeber said.
According to legal experts, Missourians have been concerned with bias in traffic enforcement for decades. In 2000, the state passed a law that created the annualthat Black drivers were pulled over at a higher rate than white drivers."Part of that is a socioeconomic thing; those neighborhoods tend to be poor," Benjamin Easter, a Kansas City criminal defense lawyer, told Yahoo News."And so people are going to have cars with more things wrong with them.
Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves denied Williams’s allegations in a statement released on March 22.
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