“An Empirical Assessment of Pretextual Stops and Racial Profiling,” Stanford Law Review (2021) (with Edwards)

By analyzing a data set of more than 8 million traffic stops, Rushin finds that a Washington Supreme Court decision permitting a form of pretextual traffic stops was associated with a statistically significant increase in traffic stops of drivers of color relative to white drivers. Further, the increase in traffic stops of drivers of color was concentrated during daytime hours, when officers could more easily ascertain a driver’s race through visual observation.