Why are police on Illinois college campuses stopping Black drivers at high rates?

For decades, we've known Black drivers in Illinois get pulled over at rates higher than white drivers. A new analysis from the Investigative Project on Race and Equity, along with WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times, has found those disparities extend to the state's public college campuses, too.

Black drivers are being pulled over at rates higher than both Black student enrollment and the Black population of the surrounding communities. One of the journalists behind the story as well as criminal justice and civil rights experts discuss some of the findings. 

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Nicole Jeanine Johnson 
Journalist, Investigative Project on Race and Equity
Co-author, "At Illinois public universities, campus cops pull over Black drivers at higher rates"

Khadine Bennett
Director of Advocacy and Intergovernmental Affairs, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois

Miltonette Craig 
Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology

Davarian Baldwin 
Historian, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College