Upshot: Hidden data on traffic stops

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It’s Often Missing. [Ben Blatt headshot](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRok2oTP0S6aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvYmVuLWJsYXR0P2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTI5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3VwXzIwMjQwODA1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTEzMDc5NCZubD10aGUtdXBzaG90JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNzQyMTgmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmarE-WwZsfhEIFSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~)[Emily Badger headshot](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRok2oTP0S9aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvZW1pbHktYmFkZ2VyP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTI5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3VwXzIwMjQwODA1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTEzMDc5NCZubD10aGUtdXBzaG90JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNzQyMTgmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmarE-WwZsfhEIFSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) By [Ben Blatt](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRok2oTP0S6aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvYmVuLWJsYXR0P2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTI5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3VwXzIwMjQwODA1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTEzMDc5NCZubD10aGUtdXBzaG90JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNzQyMTgmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmarE-WwZsfhEIFSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) and [Emily Badger](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRok2oTP0S9aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvZW1pbHktYmFkZ2VyP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTI5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3VwXzIwMjQwODA1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTEzMDc5NCZubD10aGUtdXBzaG90JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNzQyMTgmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmarE-WwZsfhEIFSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) Last Monday, we published a data-driven look at the [decline of traffic stops](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRok2oTP0TtaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyNC8wNy8yOS91cHNob3QvdHJhZmZpYy1lbmZvcmNlbWVudC1kd2luZGxlZC5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTI5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3VwXzIwMjQwODA1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTEzMDc5NCZubD10aGUtdXBzaG90JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNzQyMTgmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmarE-WwZsfhEIFSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) in America. The cities and states we highlighted weren’t necessarily those with the steepest declines in traffic enforcement nationally — they were places with steep declines that data enabled us to see. There is no national standard or source for recording traffic stops, so we tried to gather data from as many different cities and state agencies as possible. Many cities we would have liked to have shown had incomplete data. And other cities publish no data on traffic stops at all. The lack of reliable, comparable data doesn’t just make our job as reporters tricky. Communities with good data often have different political and policy discussions than places where nonexistent data makes it hard for the public to know what’s going on. Data mandates tell the police that their actions are being tracked. As several researchers told us, the existence of data alone can change how the police behave. For all these reasons, we came to think of the data as a character in our story — one shaping the other actors around it (including us, and the story we were able to tell). Below are some of the data quirks and difficulties we encountered. Lack of consistent historical data Concerns over racial disparities in enforcement have led to laws mandating data collection on traffic stops. In 2003, an Illinois state senator named Barack Obama sponsored the Illinois Traffic and Pedestrian Stop Statistical Study Act. It required every police department in the state to record data on traffic stops. As a result, Illinois has some of the best available data today. Other states, like North Carolina and Missouri, passed similar laws around the same time. Most states still don’t have comprehensive data laws, though large states like California and Virginia have adopted them recently. Another way to track stops is to ask the public — instead of the police — about encounters with traffic enforcement. The Bureau of Justice Statistics conducts a [representative survey](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRok2oTP0TbaHR0cHM6Ly9ianMub2pwLmdvdi9kYXRhLWNvbGxlY3Rpb24vcG9saWNlLXB1YmxpYy1jb250YWN0LXN1cnZleS1wcGNzP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTI5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3VwXzIwMjQwODA1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTEzMDc5NCZubD10aGUtdXBzaG90JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNzQyMTgmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmarE-WwZsfhEIFSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) every few years that yields an estimate of the number of people nationally who have been pulled over. Unfortunately, the most recent publicly released survey was completed during the first six months of 2020. That means federal surveys have not yet captured much of the decline in enforcement starting with the pandemic that we see in local data. Road fatality data is messy, too We became interested in traffic enforcement because of our [previous](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRok2oTP0TlaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8xMS8yNy91cHNob3Qvcm9hZC1kZWF0aHMtcGVkZXN0cmlhbnMtY3ljbGlzdHMuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0yOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF91cF8yMDI0MDgwNSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMzA3OTQmbmw9dGhlLXVwc2hvdCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTc0MjE4JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgpmqxPlsGbH4RCBUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~) [reporting](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRok2oTP0ThaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMy8xMi8xMS91cHNob3QvbmlnaHR0aW1lLWRlYXRocy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTI5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3VwXzIwMjQwODA1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTEzMDc5NCZubD10aGUtdXBzaG90JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNzQyMTgmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmarE-WwZsfhEIFSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) on road deaths. In America, more than 40,000 people are killed on roads each year. But it can be hard to find annual road fatality counts for individual cities. In some cities, that data is collected by the police department, in others by the transportation department. Some cities also exclude from their numbers deaths that occur on federal or state highways that pass through town. To get around these problems, the fatality data we cited in our article came from [a federal database](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRok2oTP0ThaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmh0c2EuZ292L3Jlc2VhcmNoLWRhdGEvZmF0YWxpdHktYW5hbHlzaXMtcmVwb3J0aW5nLXN5c3RlbS1mYXJzP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTI5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3VwXzIwMjQwODA1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTEzMDc5NCZubD10aGUtdXBzaG90JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNzQyMTgmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmarE-WwZsfhEIFSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) in which the location of each death nationwide is recorded. Each road fatality should include a recorded race. But we found that in many states the share of all deaths with race “unknown” has changed meaningfully over the years. Pennsylvania, for instance, listed over one-third of all fatalities as “unknown” race in recent years. These inconsistencies, both by geography and time, make any takeaways difficult. 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