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Vermont study finds traffic stops of Black drivers outpace Black population in Upper Valley towns Modified: 2/13/2021 10:24:28 PM WHITE RIVER JUNCTION Police in Hartford, Woodstock and Royalton stopped Black drivers at rates that rival the statewide average of the percentage of Black drivers who are pulled over, according to a study released last month by the University of Vermont. Still, stops by Hartford and Woodstock police significantly exceeded the rate that would ordinarily be expected given the number of Black people living in the two towns. The study, by UVM economics professor Stephanie Seguino, analyzed traffic stops by race in nearly 80 departments across Vermont from 2015 to 2019 and found that police pulled over Black drivers in 3.6% of all traffic stops over the five-year span. That number includes externally generated stops, which are stops based on information from someone other than the officer making the stop, like “be-on-the-lookout calls,” according to t

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