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Alpine police present annual racial-profiling report; council hears stop and search breakdowns
Summary
Police Chief Gottman presented Alpine’s annual racial-profiling report, giving counts of stops, searches, citations, contraband discoveries and arrests by race/ethnicity and reporting zero formal racial-profiling complaints; the council asked a few clarifying questions and placed the report on file.
Chief Gottman presented Alpine’s annual racial-profiling report and read a line-by-line breakdown of traffic stops, moving violations, searches, citations, contraband discoveries and arrests by race and location. He reported roughly 2,001 total stops (transcript numeric formatting garbled) with 962 stops on city streets and 1,102 on Lewis Highway, and he said there were zero formal complaints of racial profiling for the reporting period.
The chief described search outcomes and contraband findings by racial/ethnic category and summarized use-of-force and arrest statistics. Council members asked clarifying questions about the data and the chief said the report submitted to the state of Texas is available on the city website and that it had been reviewed by that agency. One council member noted that two-thirds of traffic citations were concentrated on certain corridors and requested further context on causes and enforcement patterns.
The council did not take policy action at the meeting; the report was provided for statutory transparency and will remain available in the council packet and the city website for public review.
