For years, Black Clevelanders complained they bore the brunt of traffic citations in this wealthy neighboring village, but only had anecdotes from a local court where long lines of Black people waited to face prosecution and pay fines.
They now have definitive proof: Black drivers have been stopped and ticketed more often than White drivers as they traveled through the village since 2024, according to traffic stop data gathered by The Marshall Project – Cleveland.
Officers sporadically tracked stops and citations in 2023, but began doing so comprehensively in 2024 and underwent mandatory anti-bias training after a 2022 Marshall Project – Cleveland investigation found racial disparities in traffic enforcement…