[Peace-discuss] Fw: references regarding state racial profiling data

[Randall Cotton]

Attached is what I presented to the Urbana City Council this past Monday
and below is my follow up to interested council members Charlie Smyth and
Dave Gherig.

R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randall Cotton" <recotton at earthlink.net>
To: "Dave Gherig" <dggherig at city.urbana.il.us>; "Charlie Smyth"
<csmyth at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:16 PM
Subject: references regarding state racial profiling data


: Dear Charlie and Dave,
:
: Thanks for your interest and concern regarding this issue.
:
: Please find attached the data I presented last night as it appeared on
: your screens (and was presumably recorded on the video of the meeting).
:
: To elaborate, you can find a description of the methodology and
statewide
: demographic data on estimated driver population at:
:
: .http://www.dot.state.il.us/trafficstop/2004summary.pdf
:
: And you'll find the 2007 data for all jurisdictions at:
:
: .http://www.dot.state.il.us/travelstats/2007%20Agency%20Reports.pdf
:
: The main State of Illinois web page on the racial profiling data for
2007
: (from where you can navigate to the above files and many others) is at:
:
: http://www.dot.il.gov/trafficstop/results07.html
:
: On this main page it's stated:
: ***************
:
: To obtain a copy of the 2007 raw data, email IDOT at
: racialprofiling at dot.il.gov, and a CD containing the data will be mailed
to
: you.  Please include all necessary mailing information (name and mailing
: address) and the data format requested.  Only one copy of the data will
be
: sent per request.
:
:
: The deliverable data format is:  a Statewide ASCII delimited text file,
: approximately 419 MB in size or 1,041 individual agency ASCII delimited
: text files.  These files can be imported into a database (Instructions
: included with deliverable CD).
:
: ***************
: The format of the raw data is described at:
:
: http://www.dot.il.gov/trafficstop/database07.html
:
: What efforts are you willing to undertake to investigate the degree to
: which racial profiling takes place in Urbana, contributing to the 250%
: disparity in likelihood of being pulled over if you're black vs. if
you're
: white?
:
: Thanks
: R
:
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