I Analyzed 25M+ Public Records To Measure Racial Disparities In Sentencing, Traffic Stops, And Mortgage Lending Across The US

I built three investigations using only public government data:

Same Crime, Different Time — 1.3M federal sentencing records (USSC, 2002-2024). Black defendants receive 3.85 months longer sentences than white defendants for the same offense, controlling for offense type, criminal history, and other factors.

Same Stop, Different Outcome — 8.6M traffic stops across 18 states (Stanford Open Policing Project). Black and Hispanic drivers are searched at 2-4x the rate of white drivers, yet contraband is found less often.

Same Loan, Different Rate — 15.3M mortgage applications (HMDA, 2018-2023). Black borrowers pay 7.1 basis points more and Hispanic borrowers 9.7 basis points more in interest rate spread, even after OLS regression controls.

All data is public, all code is open source, and the interactive sites are free:

• samecrimedifferenttime.org (http://samecrimedifferenttime.org/)

• samestopdifferentoutcome.org (http://samestopdifferentoutcome.org/)

• sameloandifferentrate.org (http://sameloandifferentrate.org/)

Happy to answer questions about methodology.