21.   Compliance improved, but troopers still failed to obey the order in thousands of traffic stops, the audits show.

22.   Currently, the Justice Department has no statistics on traffic stops and race, although some independent studies have pointed to a disproportionate number of black motorists being stopped.

23.   Deputy Angelo Gonzales complained that an officer who made racist comments to Hispanics during a traffic stop was not disciplined and should have been.

24.   Each traffic stop identified more players and spawned suspicion within the drug organization.

25.   Eight officers, shotguns at the ready, converge to make routine traffic stops.

26.   Eight days later, two police officers shot Michael Carpenter to death, following a traffic stop.

27.   For example, a Topeka police officer spotted rolling papers often used in smoking marijuana on the floor of a car during a traffic stop.

28.   For example, the department does not track instances where officers make a traffic stop but do not write a ticket.

29.   For many blacks who have become accustomed to regular traffic stops, the nature of those warrants raised the specter of racial profiling.

30.   Forget those three tickets in a single traffic stop during a recent trip to Abilene for the regional high school volleyball tournament.