Motor Vehicle Contacts
Policing and Criminal Justice
Policing
Motor Vehicle Contacts Including Tickets , Citations and Warnings , 2019
Race / Ethnicity
All Motor Vehicle Contacts Tickets or Cita�ons Verbal Warnings
|
N |
% |
N |
% |
N |
% |
White |
36,269 |
31.0 % |
16,412 |
31.5 % |
19,058 |
31.4 % |
Black |
43,903 |
37.5 % |
18,731 |
36.0 % |
22,774 |
37.5 % |
Hispanic or La�no |
28,926 |
24.7 % |
13,745 |
26.4 % |
14,219 |
23.4 % |
Asian or Pacific Islander |
4,991 |
4.3 % |
1,874 |
3.6 % |
3,066 |
5.0 % |
Alaska Na�ve or American |
67 |
0.1 % |
30 |
0.1 % |
34 |
0.1 % |
Middle Eastern |
2,925 |
2.5 % |
1,274 |
2.4 % |
1,623 |
2.7 % |
Other |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Total 117,081 100 % 52,066 100 % 60,774 100 %
Motor Vehicle Contacts
Source : 2019 Annual Report Sandra Bland Act , p . 19 Arlington Police Department
Of all motor vehicle contacts , the majority of subjects by race or ethnicity were Black ( 37.5 percent ), White ( 31.0 percent ), and Hispanic or Latino ( 24.7 percent ). The same order of ranked frequency is observed for tickets or citations and verbal warnings .
I was definitely trying to let the officer know that I ’ m deaf , that I could not hear anything . I was saying : ‘ I can ’ t hear you ,’ and the policeman was trying to force me to read his lips . In that situation , I was trying to clearly write to him because I was needing and wanting to communicate , but the policeman refused to write with me . It just became aggravating . He asked me to get out of the car because he thought that I was resisting . I was getting really nervous and paranoid about it and I didn ’ t know if he was gonna try to arrest me . I just didn ’ t know what was going to happen at that point , whether I was going to be arrested or something . He was screaming at me and I kept saying , ‘ I ’ m deaf .’
– an Arlington resident
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