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Consultant: Cedar Hill traffic-stop data show high search ‘hit rate’; no racial-profiling complaints in 2025
Summary
At an April 14 Cedar Hill briefing, consultant Dr. Eric Fritch presented a 2025 traffic-stop analysis of 7,602 stops, reporting a 62% search 'hit rate' and no racial-profiling complaints; police also outlined a grant request to fund license-plate readers and a drone-as-first-responder program.
Dr. Eric Fritch of Justice Research Consultants told the Cedar Hill City Council at its April 14 briefing that his 2025 analysis of 7,602 traffic stops found no formal racial-profiling complaints and a high success rate for searches.
"Your hit rate is 62 percent in 2025," Fritch said, summarizing the proportion of searches that yielded contraband. He told the council the department conducted searches in 6.1% of stops and that search rates varied by race: "2.6%" for White motorists, "7.8%" for Black motorists and "3.7%" for Hispanic motorists, according to the presentation.
Chief Eli Reyes, the city’s Director of…
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