Austin Police Department annual report shows a disproportional number of Black Austinites arrested and injured.
Austinites of color continue to be subjected to traffic stops at rates that far exceed their shares of the local population, according to the's annual report on racial profiling, released on March 11. As this is not exactly surprising, justice advocates say the report is more interesting for what it leaves out than what it contains.
Officers made arrests in 2,920 of those stops, and these present a starker picture of institutional bias. Black people accounted for 18% of those arrested; Hispanics, 48%; whites, 32%; and Asians, 2%. In 64 of the arrests, officers used enough force to result in injuries. Black people made up 23% of those injured; Hispanics, 58%; whites, 27%; Asians, 3%.
Actions by individual officers is what the racial profiling report does not address, and that, Harris said, is by design – because the police lobby at the state and city levels works to restrict the disclosure of such data."It would be great to see everything about how individual officers are interacting with people, you know, all of their interactions," Harris said.
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