Black people 8 times more likely to be pulled over by Milwaukee police

In Milwaukee in 2019, Black people were eight times more likely to be pulled over and seven times more likely to be frisked by police compared with white people, according to a newly released report.

And on top of that, Milwaukee Police Department officers provided sufficient, documented justification for less than a quarter of the frisks they conducted in 2019.

The numbers come from the latest report from the Boston-based Crime and Justice Institute, which is monitoring the police…