A Buffalo police car sits on the side of the street in downtown Buffalo. The Buffalo Police Department plans to make information on traffic stops more accessible to the public. Buffalo Police ...

San Francisco police officers are supposed to record every traffic stop they make in a sprawling database. The Chronicle obtained access to those data through a Public Records Act request. It was ...

Washington state troopers stop and search drivers of color more often than white Washingtonians, new data shows.

A new analysis of traffic stop data showed "troubling disparities" in how Latino drivers are treated on Suffolk roads, according to a Manhattan civil rights organization that has accused the county’s ...

The Fourth Amendment protects us from being stopped, searched, or detained by police without good reason. But over the years, courts have dramatically weakened those protections when it comes to cars ...

The Vallejo Police Department recently announced the publication of an interactive dashboard featuring its stop data, as required by the Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 (RIPA), on the ...

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In March, police in Phoenix stopped a man for a minor traffic violation. He now faces deportation as a result of the stop, the head of an advocacy organization told the Phoenix New Times. Phoenix’s ...

Traffic stops sit at the tense intersection of public safety, police discretion, and your constitutional rights. What feels ...