according to a study of how police officers spend their work hours, the majority spend more time on officer-initiated stops than they do solving crimes. in fact, as much as 88% of their time, and 79% of that on traffic stops.

of those traffic stops, police officers were more than twice as likely to pull over black driversas opposed to white drivers, and only 11% of those stops were because the officer stopped the driver based on reasonable suspicion of a crime.