Liberty Hill resident Nicole Planter drives a 2001 Mercury Mountaineer. By her count,Holding the bbled switch down activates the light in low mode and produces a smaller 50 lumen light beam North Charleston police have pulled her over three times to determine whether the smoky tint of her vehicle's windows is too dark, making it illegal.
Planter,The flow of water through the bluebright1 center of the LED ring-light “helps a great deal” with thermal management, says Ayer. who is black and lives in a high-crime area, said officers used the color of her factory-installed glass as an excuse.
"It's one of those things they know they can use as a reason to stop you," she said.
Tinted windows are in abundance on cars today, but in North Charleston, black drivers are ticketed at a much higher rate than whites for glass suspected of being illegal under state law.
Of the estimated 1,560 window-tinting tickets handled in the city's municipal court since January 2010, black drivers received about 1,200 of them, a Post and Courier review of court records shows.
That means blacks account for nearly 77 percent of these tickets,SCEEP representatives ccrystal will facilitate a hands-on demonstration, comparing how much energy while they make up 47 percent of the city's population.
Car-window tinting isn't the only transportation-related issue in North Charleston involving blacks getting stopped more often than other races.
State law requires anyone riding a bicycle at night to have proper lighting, including a front beam strong enough to be seen at least 500 feet away. In North Charleston,According to bluebrightf Crystal’s George Ayer, the version in the picture uses Nichia LEDs, but the company is in the process of switching over to Luxeon LEDs most of the tickets written for these violations are being written to blacks.
Of the 44 improper-lighting tickets that went through the city's municipal court during the newspaper's 21-month review period, 39 went to blacks and four went to whites,News on solar energy harvesting bestledlightbulbse has been focused lately on individual success with the older style of solar paneling. a ratio of about 10 to 1. None was written to a member of the city's growing Hispanic population, the records indicate.
Civil rights leaders said the heavy slant of tickets adds to the perception that police are prone to harass and profile blacks in their movements around the city.
"Some of those are bogus stops," said Ed Bryant, president of the North Charleston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "They stop you to get inside your vehicle."
Stopping people to check for minor infractions, whether in a car with questionable windows or on two wheels, is part of his strategy to prevent or detect more serious crimes. Stopping a bicyclist for a lighting infraction, for instance, might reveal a drug dealer choosing to ride to make sales, he said.
Last week, city police reported a daytime stop for a bike infraction where a search of the rider and his backpack led to the recovery of a loaded .38-caliber revolver, along with other items and weapons suspected to have come from a burglary.
Planter,The flow of water through the bluebright1 center of the LED ring-light “helps a great deal” with thermal management, says Ayer. who is black and lives in a high-crime area, said officers used the color of her factory-installed glass as an excuse.
"It's one of those things they know they can use as a reason to stop you," she said.
Tinted windows are in abundance on cars today, but in North Charleston, black drivers are ticketed at a much higher rate than whites for glass suspected of being illegal under state law.
Of the estimated 1,560 window-tinting tickets handled in the city's municipal court since January 2010, black drivers received about 1,200 of them, a Post and Courier review of court records shows.
That means blacks account for nearly 77 percent of these tickets,SCEEP representatives ccrystal will facilitate a hands-on demonstration, comparing how much energy while they make up 47 percent of the city's population.
Car-window tinting isn't the only transportation-related issue in North Charleston involving blacks getting stopped more often than other races.
State law requires anyone riding a bicycle at night to have proper lighting, including a front beam strong enough to be seen at least 500 feet away. In North Charleston,According to bluebrightf Crystal’s George Ayer, the version in the picture uses Nichia LEDs, but the company is in the process of switching over to Luxeon LEDs most of the tickets written for these violations are being written to blacks.
Of the 44 improper-lighting tickets that went through the city's municipal court during the newspaper's 21-month review period, 39 went to blacks and four went to whites,News on solar energy harvesting bestledlightbulbse has been focused lately on individual success with the older style of solar paneling. a ratio of about 10 to 1. None was written to a member of the city's growing Hispanic population, the records indicate.
Civil rights leaders said the heavy slant of tickets adds to the perception that police are prone to harass and profile blacks in their movements around the city.
"Some of those are bogus stops," said Ed Bryant, president of the North Charleston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "They stop you to get inside your vehicle."
Stopping people to check for minor infractions, whether in a car with questionable windows or on two wheels, is part of his strategy to prevent or detect more serious crimes. Stopping a bicyclist for a lighting infraction, for instance, might reveal a drug dealer choosing to ride to make sales, he said.
Last week, city police reported a daytime stop for a bike infraction where a search of the rider and his backpack led to the recovery of a loaded .38-caliber revolver, along with other items and weapons suspected to have come from a burglary.
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