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About the Report:
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and LatinoJustice PRLDEF released a new report, “Discrimination in Overdrive: Florida’s Immigration Crackdown Fuels Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops,” unveiling severe racial disparities within Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) traffic enforcement practices. 

Drawing on data obtained through public records requests from 2022 and 2024, the report exposes rampant and systematic disparities within FHP’s enforcement practices, with Black and Hispanic drivers facing the brunt of racial profiling practices. 

Report Highlights: 

• Even though Black people make up only 15% of Florida’s population, Black drivers are the most disproportionately overrepresented group for traffic stops. 
• It also finds that Hispanic drivers are arrested at nearly twice their representation in traffic stops and face 2.1 times higher odds of arrest—inequities that Florida’s aggressive expansion of 287(g) agreements is poised to worsen.

• It discovered disparities are most pronounced in troops covering areas predominantly white regions with smaller Hispanic populations, indicating that bias may be most severe where minority drivers are most visible or vulnerable.