Seguin Police present 2024 racial profiling report: 8,514 stops, 219 arrests; department says no complaints

Seguin Police Chief Daniel Brady presented the police department’s 2024 racial profiling report to the Seguin City Council, reporting 8,514 traffic stops, demographic breakdowns of stops and that the department received no formal complaints alleging racial profiling.

The nut graf: Under Texas law agencies that conduct traffic enforcement must collect demographic data for every traffic stop and report it to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement and to their governing bodies. Chief Brady told the council the data show the department’s stops roughly align with local population demographics and that the department’s policies comply with state law and accreditation standards.

What Chief Brady reported: Chief Brady said the department recorded 8,514 traffic stops in 2024. He provided a racial breakdown on the department’s stop-recording form (reported as officer-entered classifications): approximately 3,000 stops identified as White, 732 as Black, 4,604 as Hispanic/Latino and 75 as Asian or Pacific Islander. He said about 39% of individuals stopped were female and the remainder male. The department recorded 219 arrests tied to those stops. Chief Brady also described categories the state requires for reasons for stops, types of outcomes (written warning, citation, arrest) and search types (consent, plain view, probable cause, inventory/search incident to arrest).

Policy and complaints: Chief Brady said the department had received zero complaints of racial profiling for 2024, that policies are in compliance with the Texas Occupations Code and with state accreditation requirements, and that assessors would be on site the following two days to review policies and procedures.

Council questions and staff notes: Council members asked whether stop data could be cross-referenced to determine how many stopped drivers were Seguin residents; Chief Brady said that would require matching citation-address fields to a separate data source and was not included in the standard racial-profiling module. Chief Brady and Officer Mike McCann were credited for compiling the report.

Context: Chief Brady noted the demographic comparisons do not capture nonresident traffic through Seguin (commuters and through traffic) and cautioned the dataset is based on officer-entered race/ethnicity fields in the ticket-writing system, which may reflect officer observation rather than self-identification.

Ending: The council accepted the report and had no further directive; Chief Brady noted assessors would review the department’s policies the next two days.