I have been stopped by the cops once in the last 20 years. So even Monica's statistic of five stops in 10 years might have a racist edge to it. Or maybe she drives faster than I and gets speeding tickets. I don't know. But it seems the Montana police are leaving her alone most of the time.

One interesting statitic that came out of the George Floyd incident is that the USA had 250m interactions between police and the public in a previous year. I think its safe to say that at least 20m of them had to be white officers and Black citizens. Yet very, very, very few of them ended up like George Floyd.

Monica made a point several times in her book that there still is work to do with racism in the USA, but it is not as bad as the media makes it out to be.

I took a look at your research summary. One thing I would like such research to consider is the effect of poverty on the data. Poverty creates a state of mind that is conducive to being stopped by police more often. For example, a middle class person is more likely to get a taillight fixed while a poor person may not have the money or skills and believe he can let it ride. Which one is going to get stopped by police? Race is secondary. Poor whites probably have similar rate as poor Blacks.

Of course, why are more Blacks poor? There is likely enough systemic racism to keep too many in poverty. But police-stopping-by-race is not as big of reason as is poverty. BTW, I came to this conclusion before I read Monica's book.

In one of her Medium articles, Monica mentions that 97% of Blacks killed by firearms are killed by Blacks. This might be overstated, but there is a lot of Black-on-Black social dysfunction. And again, that poverty thing comes up again. Police deal far more with people in poverty than in the middle class and higher.

I am an advocate for a slow implementation of Universal Basic Income. Eliminating poverty in this way will set more people into a positive psyche--so as not to get stopped as often by police.