Using data on more than 220,000 individuals on Lyft, researchers report in Science that drivers of color are significantly more likely to receive speeding tickets than white drivers, and to face steeper fines, even when traveling at identical speeds.
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High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding
Prior research on racial profiling has found that in encounters with law enforcement, minorities are punished more severely than white civilians. Less is known about the causes of these encounters and...
