The second year of traffic stop reporting by Illinois police departments showed fewer minorities were stopped in 2005 than in 2004, but minority drivers were more likely to be subjected to consent searches.
The report is the second released since state lawmakers agreed to chart traffic stops statewide and record racial and ethnic data as part of a multi-year study.
Mark Donahue, president of Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 7, said the 2005 results show racial profiling is not a problem in Chicago and is not as rampant as some might believe.
"The statistics are coming back in our favor. We never said it doesn't exist, but the perception is much more …
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