Decatur police present annual racial-profiling report, report zero formal complaints

Feb 23, 2026

The police chief presented the city's legislatively required annual racial-profiling report, saying officers made 9,552 traffic stops last year, conducted 266 searches, reported 10 incidents involving physical force and logged zero formal racial-profiling complaints for the year.

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The police chief presented Decatur's annual racial-profiling report to the City Council, saying the department's records show 9,552 traffic stops during the reporting year and that most stops occurred on U.S. highways. "This report has to be presented to you guys by March 1 each and every single year," the chief told the council.

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