CLEVELAND, Ohio — A city-commissioned study that declared there was no “systemic racial bias” in Cleveland police searches did not adequately prove that’s the case, the federal monitor overseeing the city’s court-ordered police reforms said.
Cleveland’s study looked at what happened after drivers were stopped. But the federal monitor wants to know why Black drivers are stopped more often to begin with.
Black drivers in Cleveland were 3.7 times more likely to be stopped by police, according to a report from the team monitoring the city’s progress under a consent decree. That same report called for a deeper dive to determine whether those disparities were driven by intentional bias…