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Lampasas police present traffic-stop report; chief says department logged 3,658 stops and "0 complaints" on racial profiling
Summary
The Lampasas Police Department reported 3,658 traffic stops last year and, according to the department’s presentation, "specifically on racial profiling, we have 0 complaints." Councilmembers pressed staff on whether stops were compared to local demographic percentages and asked for follow-up data.
Presiding Officer (Speaker 3) opened the agenda item and the city’s Police Chief (Speaker 5) presented the department’s annual traffic-stop and racial-profiling report, saying the department recorded 3,658 traffic stops last year and that "specifically on racial profiling, we have 0 complaints." The chief described the report as a detailed traffic-stop data set compiled monthly and annually by the records office and invited council and the public to review the records.
The chief cautioned…
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