What happened next sparked a years-long court battle that landed at the state's supreme court. The study looked at 20 million traffic stops across the state. The state's Supreme Court disagreed. "The Whren decision has been heavily criticized because of the way it allows widespread racial profiling throughout this mechanism of pretextual traffic stops," Takei said. But authorities shouldn't be using traffic stops to launch into criminal investigations, Crowther says.

Source: CNN December 14, 2019 06:33 UTC