{"id":39088,"date":"2026-02-19T16:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-analyzed-25m-public-records-to-measure-racial-disparities-in-sentencing-traffic-stops-and-mortgage-lending-across-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:28:29","slug":"i-analyzed-25m-public-records-to-measure-racial-disparities-in-sentencing-traffic-stops-and-mortgage-lending-across-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-analyzed-25m-public-records-to-measure-racial-disparities-in-sentencing-traffic-stops-and-mortgage-lending-across-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"I Analyzed 25M+ Public Records To Measure Racial Disparities In Sentencing, Traffic Stops, And Mortgage Lending Across The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I built three investigations using only public government data:<\/p>\n<p>Same Crime, Different Time \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>Same Stop, Different Outcome \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>Same Loan, Different Rate \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>All data is public, all code is open source, and the interactive sites are free:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 samecrimedifferenttime.org (<a href=\"http:\/\/samecrimedifferenttime.org\/\">http:\/\/samecrimedifferenttime.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 samestopdifferentoutcome.org (<a href=\"http:\/\/samestopdifferentoutcome.org\/\">http:\/\/samestopdifferentoutcome.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 sameloandifferentrate.org (<a href=\"http:\/\/sameloandifferentrate.org\/\">http:\/\/sameloandifferentrate.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Happy to answer questions about methodology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/justiceindexhub\"> \/u\/justiceindexhub <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/justice-index.org\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1r86rmz\/i_analyzed_25m_public_records_to_measure_racial\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-39088 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='39088' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-39088 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-39088 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I built three investigations using only public government data: Same Crime, Different Time \u2014 1.3M federal sentencing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}