“For nearly three decades, North Carolina required law enforcement officers and agencies to record information about traffic stops, searches, arrests and uses of force, creating a database that allowed the public to examine racial disparities involving individual officers and departments.
That requirement ended July 1, when the General Assembly quietly repealed it through a two-line provision on page 448 of the newly passed 634-page state budget.
Some law enforcement leaders welcomed the end of what they considered redundant and flawed paperwork.
But researchers and civil rights advocates say the repeal eliminates one of the state’s strongest tools for identifying patterns of biased policing.”
—The News & Observer article, NC quietly ends decades of tracking racial disparities in policing
They’re afraid of facts.