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Murphy Police report finds traffic-stop outcomes largely consistent across races; recommends post-stop analysis
Summary
An external review of Murphy Police Department traffic-stop data for 2024 found most stops resulted in verbal warnings, low rates of searches and consent searches, and no reports of force causing bodily injury. The consultant emphasized limits of pre-stop race data and focused the analysis on post-stop outcomes.
An independent consultant presented the City of Murphy’s 2024 racial-profiling analysis to the City Council on March 4, finding that outcomes of traffic stops—warnings, citations and arrests—were broadly similar across racial and ethnic groups and that no complaints alleging racial profiling were filed in 2024.
The presentation to the council was delivered by Eric Fritch of Justice Research Consultants, who said Murphy Police Department recorded 6,804 motor-vehicle stops in 2024 and that the state-required analysis focuses on what happens after an officer identifies a driver’s race or ethnicity. The consulting report noted that officers rarely know a motorist’s race before a stop—about 0.5% of stops in Murphy in 2024—so the…
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