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Decatur police present annual racial-profiling report: 6,546 stops recorded; two force incidents, no profiling complaints
Summary
At the Feb. 24 Decatur City Council meeting the police department presented its annual racial profiling report for Jan.–Dec. 2024, reporting 6,546 traffic stops, two uses of physical force with injuries to suspects and no complaints alleging racial profiling.
The City of Decatur received its required annual racial profiling report covering Jan. 2024 through Dec. 2024 at the Feb. 24 City Council meeting. The police department reported 6,546 total stops in the period and said the number of stops had declined compared with prior years.
The report was presented under the statutory requirement that municipalities provide an annual racial profiling analysis. "This is our annual racial profiling report that we're required, every single year to give," said the police department representative during the presentation. The presenter told council the department would compare the data against local…
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