Hartford Traffic Stops

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This document consists of two graphs showing interesting insights into the police traffic stops in Hartford, CT, drawing upon data from the Stanford Open Policing Project. The first depicts the frequency of traffic stops at a given time throughout the day and shows that traffic stops occur at, or at least are reported at, times in intervals of five minutes (12:00, 12:05, etc.) far more frequently than they do at other exact times. The second shows the ratio of black to white arrest rates in each of the city's neighborhoods. It shows that, while there are neighborhoods where white people are arrested at higher rates than black people at traffic stops, in Downtown and neighboring areas with more concentrated police stops, black people are arrested at higher rates than white people.