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Commission reviews early data on consent-search policy; calls for deeper analysis and possible academic partnership
Summary
The commission discussed early data on Montgomery County's new consent-search policy, noting that available six‑month figures are limited and disparities persist. Members urged a deeper, risk‑adjusted analysis and discussed seeking outside academic help to identify better benchmarks than census data.
Commissioners reviewed staff updates and a public-safety work session on the county’s revised consent-search policy and agreed the available six-month dataset is too small to draw firm conclusions about disparities.
Why it matters: Commissioners said the question of how to benchmark police stops and searches — census data versus alternative ‘risk‑adjusted’ measures — is central to evaluating disparities. Several…
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