Source: What data on 20 million traffic stops can tell us about ‘driving while black’ – The Washington Post

I came across this article from 2018, and I really appreciate its data-driven analysis of race-related traffic stops.

I posted it to Twitter and immediately got this:

I had to look again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/07/17/what-data-on-20-million-traffic-stops-can-tell-us-about-driving-while-black/

Oh.  Yeah.  “monkey-cage”.  That does not look good.  I wandered back to check out what they had to say.  Here is their about page:

I love the Mencken quote, but I do agree it is a bit tone-deaf.  Here is what I wrote to the editors.

I will update this post when I get a response.