@LGroves , thanks for your comment. Here is our answer: - the dramatic decrease in traffic stops started in 2018, so COVID was not a factor here. While we do not have data for the year 2020-2022 in the case of Nashville, we had data on Oklahoma City traffic stops up to the year 2020. For Oklahoma City, there was no such dramatic decrease in traffic stops in 2019 - 2020 (COVID years). It proves that COVID was not a confounding factor. In addition to this, based on the comparative study of other cities, racial disparity issue is present in the other cities as well, regardless of the level of diversity in those cities, geography, and political history. Oklahoma City (OK), San Francisco (CA), and Austin (TX) all show similar statistics. However, the Nashville case is important because the number of traffic stops was so high in Nashville and the dataset was so complete with different information that the dataset helped us to run analysis from various angles. Based on the comparative study, we strongly believe the authority/ govt. should pay ATTENTION to this issue.
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