As the Madison Police Department’s traffic enforcement rebounded following COVID-19 disruptions, a familiar concern also returned to the agency’s annual traffic reports.
Officers are once again pulling over thousands of Black and Hispanic drivers in the city at disproportionately high rates and issuing many of them citations for speeding, failure to yield or other traffic infractions.
Drivers of color have long been overrepresented in the department’s traffic enforcement, according to a Cap Times analysis of police data. But in recent years, these disparities have grown from a decade ago…