Ja, natuurlijk. Maar het gaat over 100 miljoen traffic stops. En een verschil van 20%...
Er staat zelfs bij:
"Zwarte Amerikanen werden 20% meer gestopt dan blanke Amerikanen. En auto's van zwarte Amerikanen werden 1.5 - 2.0 keer zo vaak onderzocht ook al werd er minder vaak contraband aangetroffen bij blanke Amerikanen."
Dan gaat je vlieger al niet meer op van dat er een objectieve reden voor moet zijn, want de auto werd vaker onderzocht, met minder vaak resultaat.
Als je bij die cijfers en dat verschil nog altijd zegt dat er daar geen enkel probleem is, wat zou je dan ooit wél overtuigen? Waardoor zou je dan ooit zeggen: Hm, misschien is er wel iets aan de hand? Want dit lijkt toch vooral op weigeren om een overduidelijk verband te leggen.
Heb je die podcast ook beluisterd voor je die conclusie eraan hing? Je kunt het transcript ook lezen als je doorklikt. Het relevantere stuk zit hier:
"Although, people walking around with multiple driver's license suspensions is not at all uncommon in Ohio, which I want to talk about for one quick second here because it's a real trap built into the Ohio criminal court system, one that judges seem to hate and that snags lots of people, especially poor people who live in urban areas.
Here's how it works. I grew up in Ohio. Love Ohio. But it is a terrible place to try to function without being able to drive. Perhaps in part for that very reason, the state has learned that revoking someone's driver's license is a great way to get their attention for any number of things. Lapsed car insurance, open warrants, being late on child support, unexcused absences from school—there are more than forty different ways you can get your license suspended in Ohio.
According to the BMV, the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, 1.1 million people in Ohio got their license suspended last year. That's a tenth of the state. And on average, the BMV says, people with suspensions don't just have one suspension, they have three on average. Because people keep driving. It can be hard not to. And every time you're caught driving on a suspended license, you get another suspension.
There's an escalating series of penalties, mandatory BMV fees and fines that only a payday loan company would be proud of. Trying to get out from under these suspensions once you've been caught in the trap is a terrible business.
Jesse, he didn't even know how much he owed. I called around to various municipal courts, added up the potential BMV costs. And I'd say Jesse could owe as much as $10,000. He told me he's tried from time to time to tender the fees. Paid one fine here, got on a payment plan there. But at the rate he's going, he'll probably never be able to settle his bill or get a valid driver's license."
En hier:
"One East Cleveland cop later told me the attitude of the folks in charge was that while officers shouldn't go out of their way to write Jesse up, they should quote, "handle Jesse" whenever the opportunity presented itself. Eventually, the East Cleveland cop told me, the snowball effect will, you know, take effect."
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