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Analyzing Speeding Tickets and Racial Profiling Data
This tipsheet offers several suggestions for good stories about speeding tickets, as well as some insight on how a general traffic stop story can turn into a piece about racial profiling. Hacker offers tips for doing the analysis and lists over a dozen of helpful websites like the Justice Research and Statistics Association.
Tags: traffic; speeding; discrimination; tickets; school zones