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WhiskeyGrinder

(25,917 posts)
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 09:07 AM Oct 2021

Virtually everyone a Fort Bend police officer stopped was Hispanic. His bosses shrugged. [View all]

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Virtually-everyone-this-Fort-Bend-police-officer-16495592.php

An independent consultant hired to analyze the record of a Rosenberg police officer concluded the officer appeared to base his traffic stops and searches on the race of drivers, confirming the findings of a Chronicle investigation.

Approximately 97 percent of the stops that Officer Aaron Gillory made were of Hispanic drivers, according to an analysis of citations between 2018 and 2020, Rosenberg police Chief Jonathan White said.

That mirrors conclusions Hearst reached in its July 2020 examination of the Fort Bend County Narcotics Task Force, where Gillory worked a stretch of U.S. 59. The Hearst analysis determined the officer searched 187 vehicles, all but two driven by Hispanics; and that 94 percent of the time the searches came to nothing.

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Despite the findings, it appears there will be little fallout for the officer or his superiors. The case illustrates how difficult it is to hold police accountable for enforcement that appears to be improperly influenced by race.


The institution itself is unreformable.
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