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Milwaukie police report flags 'decision to stop' disparity for Black drivers
Summary
The police chief presented the 2024 stops report showing a failed 'decision to stop' (veil-of-darkness) test for Black drivers (2.17), citing a small sample window and operational factors including a recent shift schedule change; the department pledged follow-up with the Criminal Justice Commission and additional equity work.
Milwaukie’s police chief told the City Council that the 2024 stops report flagged a potential racial disparity for Black drivers on the “decision to stop” test, reporting a result of 2.17 for that measure in the report’s sampled daylight/dusk window. The chief said the CJC methodology draws an “inner twilight” sample (roughly morning and a transition evening window) covering stops from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2024, and that the 2.17 value exceeded the commonly cited 1.8 cutoff used by the analyzer to indicate a potential fail.
The stops report uses three statistical checks: the decision-to-stop (veil-of-darkness) test, predicted dispositions (citations, searches, arrests), and search-finding analysis (rate of successful searches by group). According to the…
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