Lloyd Randall has been challenging the authorities in Danville, Illinois over racial disparities in traffic stops. Data from the Illinois Department of Transportation shows that in 2024, although Black motorists represent just 20 percent of Danville's driving population, they were 58 percent of the traffic stops.

We’ll talk with Randall, a reporter who’s covered this issue, and an advocate for civil liberties in Illinois. We invited the Danville police and mayor to join the conversation, but did not hear back.
 

Black drivers face more than 30 percent of all traffic stops in Illinois, as of the last two years. That’s a rate that’s about double their population.

Police departments in Illinois have had to report racial and ethnic information about traffic stops for nearly two decades since a law passed by former State Sen. Barack Obama. But years later, inequities persist. We talked about it with a culture and diversity reporter, an attorney at the ACLU, and the president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.