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This may be no surprise to most of you, but a new study, which was not scientific, found that white men get out of being issued traffic tickets the most, while Black women are not nearly as fortunate.
The survey by<a href="http://cheapcarinsurance.net" target="_blank"> cheapcarinsurance.net</a>, an online auto insurance site, showed that racial profiling <a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022427814523788">"remains a problem</a> in America and that the public's relationship with police forces is in desperate <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/01/15/one-third-of-americans-believe-police-lie-routinely/">need of improvement</a>," reported <a href="http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1108488_survey-white-men-get-out-of-traffic-tickets-most-often-black-women-not-so-much" target="_blank">The Car Connection</a>.
What the survey actually found was that 19.9 percent of white respondents have been able to talk their way out of traffic tickets, while 34.13 percent of African Americans said that they've never been able to get out of a ticket. Men had the higher percentage of getting out of tickets, but they too were pulled over the most. "When broken down by race, African-American drivers had been pulled over more than any other group (3.87 times), while Asian Americans had been stopped the least (2.52 times)," reported The Car Connection.
The survey also asked the respondents how they felt about being pulled over. And the racial groups had different responses. "White drivers were the most likely to feel guilty (26.93 percent), while Hispanic drivers were least likely to feel that way (12.03 percent). Meanwhile, African American drivers were most likely to say that they never felt guilty at traffic stops (6.13 percent), while Hispanic drivers were the least likely to say so (2.87 percent)," reported The Car Connection.
Have you ever been able to talk your way out of a traffic ticket?
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