The investigation resulted in three Jacksonville-area troopers being flagged for pulling over a high number Black drivers.ĭata pulled from the OIG investigation showed more than half of the drivers they pulled over were black.įHP leaders launched their own investigation, and they reported back that two of the troopers in question worked in the Contraband Interdiction Unit, which deals with illegal drug activities.
Those statistics slightly deviate from the latest Census breakdown of Florida residents, but the Office of the Inspector General dug deeper to see if the traffic stops showed any community-based racial bias. That is always, ‘who am I stopping?’ It’s the mystery behind every traffic stop.”Īccording to the TSDR data, over the last five years 2,807,344 drivers have been pulled over for suspected violations.įifty five percent of the traffic stops involved white drivers, 22% involved black drivers, 18% were Hispanic, 3% were Asian or Pacific Islander. “I’m just seeing a traffic violation, and I’m stopping you,” Montiero said. Trooper Steve Montiero, News 6 Traffic Safety Expert and FHP reserve’s trooper, explains what is going on in his mind when he makes a traffic stop. “If there’s ever a complaint against a trooper, if there’s ever a complaint about an area, we’re able to pull that data back and look and see what is going on.” “There’s a lot of perception about racial profiling and traffic stops,” said Montes. Kim Montes said the data was collected from the Traffic Stop Data Report (TSDR), which each trooper is required to complete after each traffic stop. 1, 2016, to April 30, 2021, and it included all 67 Florida counties. The compilation of traffic stops spanned from Jan. – Florida Highway Patrol troopers pulled over nearly 3 million drivers across the state over the last five years, according to new data obtained by News 6.
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