State Attorney General Jay Nixon's office released the 2003 report on traffic stops in Missouri today, and statewide numbers show that blacks were stopped at a rate 36 percent higher than expected, based solely on their proportion of the driving-age population.
To find out how regional law enforcement agencies performed, read Friday's Southeast Missourian.
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