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Pampa police present 2024 annual report; racial profiling analysis shows stop demographics align with city makeup
Summary
Pampa Police presented their 2024 annual and racial profiling reports to the City Commission on Jan. 27, 2025, reporting 4,543 traffic stops with demographic percentages the department says align with city population, 316 searches, 38 uses of force and several departmental accomplishments including accreditation and training milestones.
Pampa Police Chief presented the department’s 2024 annual report and the required racial profiling analysis to the Pampa City Commission on Jan. 27, 2025, outlining traffic-stop demographics, enforcement outcomes and training achievements.
The department’s racial profiling analysis showed 4,543 traffic stops in 2024. According to the report, 60–61% of stops were recorded as white, about 34–35% as Hispanic or Latino, and about 4.5% as African American. The department said those percentages “line up the way we want them to be” when measured against the city’s stop data.
Chief said the numbers the department watches most closely are stops that lead to searches or arrests. Of the 4,543 stops, 316 included a search; 156 of those searches were by consent. The report says contraband was…
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