Indigenous Affairs

This map shows where Washington State Patrol troopers conducted searches of Native American motorists from 2009 to 2015, as

State will study bias in searches by Washington state troopers

Washington state lawmakers have just passed a budget that pays for a collaboration between the WashingtonState Patrol and Washington State University to find out whether state troopers exercise racial bias when they decide to search motorists.

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