Proof of Publication_City Council Proceedings 7 11 17 Copyrighted
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WEWORK SESSIONS :Dr.:, Barnum re-
O SSse sponded to questions
and- comments' from i
University Traffic the City:Council.
Stop Study Analysis. There being no
Police Chief Mark further business, upon
Dalsing introduced Dr. motion the City CounciI 6
Chris Barnum," MCJ adjourned rat 7:00 p.m.
Program Director of St. /s/Trish L.Gleason,
Ambrose University CMC,
(SAU) who was con Assistant City Clerk
tracted,to conduct an It 7/16
independent traffic
study focusing on
evaluating stops made
by the Dubuque Police
Department (DPD) be-
tween January 1, 2015 i
andiEecember31,2015.1
The study centered onl a
two broad categories)
of discretionary police
conduct: .
L racial disparity in y
vehicle stops instan-
tiated as racial. dif-
ferences in the,'
likelihood of being
stopped by the-=DPD.
2. dissimilarities'
across,racial demogra-I
phicsin the outcome or
disposition of a:stop.
The study's metho-
dology,,includes using l
multiple sources of
data: to establish
baselines on popu
lation. Included in this
data is the use of point-
ail
in=time traffic counts?:
SAU used a diverse'
group 1 of trained f
observers to gather the
driving demographics
at various times during i
the day and night, in
locations where traffic'
stops;,generally.occur.
This data was:used in
conjunction with.cen-'
sus and other,mea-:<
sured-, 'demographic'
data sand-is compared j
with department traffic
stop data such as Stop
Analyses Results and
Stop "Outcomes Re-
sults.
Findings'from the i
examination of'dispro
portionality in vehicle;
stops show little or do
evidence of disparity.
Given that then term
racial " profiling is
�, generally appliedto'
contexts where the
CITY4 DUBUQUE, police use race as a
10 WA factor in deciding',
CITY COUNCIL whether to stop a
PROCEEDINGS vehicle,and that=racial
SPECIAL SESSION profilingroutinely
The Dubuque City shows up aS°disparity;
Council met in special!, in traffic stops, the
session at 6:00 p.m.on, results' from this
July 4Le 2017 in the portion of the analyses
Historic Federal Build provide no evidence
ing,35d W.6th Street. that the Dubuque
Present: Mayor Buol;, Police Department sys-'
Council Members Con- tematically engaged in
nors; Del Toro, Lynch, racial profiling in 2015.
Rios;City Manager Van''
Dr. Barnum reiterated l
Milligen, City Attorney', ,that ihe' found no
Brumwell. i' evidence for racial
Absent: Council -, profiling
Members Jones nandDr.Barnum suggested
Resnick that the, City of
Mayor Buol read the Dubuque:conduct one
call and stated this is a: additional 'roundof
special session of the analyses. The pro-
City Council called for posed' work could '
the purpose` of con ' utilize DPD traffic stop'
ducting a work session data from 2016 and
on the St. 'Ambrose *2017, with no updates
University,Traffic Stop to observational zone
Study Analysis. benchmarks needed.