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print we are the back tomorrow night at 5:00 p.m. eastern, good night. the videos are disturbing. their names are well known. traffic stops where drivers pay the ultimate price. quick shots fired subject is down too. in a system fraught with bias. with a black man four times more likely that a white man to be searched. how did we get here? are you training traffic stops or the most dangerous things that could happen? you are because they actually are. these stops can exact a huge cost on the black community. physically. what has is done to you? i can only move my arm this far for. emotionally. it is the humiliation and financially. how much money have you paid in fines and fees? over 10,000 dollars. tonight the problem and some controversial reforms. i don t believe you need somebody with the gun to pull someone over in a traffic stop. unarmed citizens during traffic stops. horrible idea. cnn special report, traffic stop dangerous encount ....
High-speed fastener tent homicide progress ron armstrong is a 24 year veteran of the oakland police department chief now for two years but he is help lead the transition away from large-scale pretextual stops after 2016 stanford study highlighted racial disparities by the force and a city that is about 25% black and 25% brown. they looked at 28000 traffic stops over a years time. what they found is one in four black men were handcuffed compared to one in 15 white men. on that about 60% of those folks that were stopped were black folks. plain and simple are we talking about racial profiling here? i think what we are talking about is a policing strategy that impacted communities of color more than anyone else. it was that way for decades in oakland in native former opd captain. i met him more than a decade ago ....
just advised we had our tenth homicide. reporter: leroux armstrong, chief of the department now, helped drive the department away from pretextual stops after a 2017 stanford studies, raised alarm for the force they looked at 28,000 traffic stops over a years time and found 1 in 4 black men were hand cuffed compared to 1 in 15 white men and about 60% of those folks that were stopped were black folks. plain and simple, are we talking about racial profiling here? i think what we re talking about is a policing strategy that impacted communities of color more than anyone else. reporter: it was that way for decades. according to ersi joiner a native and former opd captain. i met him over a decade ago when ....