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Ticketing whites and minorities Note: Speeding citations only. Readers are cautioned not to make much of percentages when they are based on a small number of cases, such as fewer than 50. An asterisk (*) indicates department submitted no warnings.Source: Boston Globe analysis of tickets and warnings in Massachusetts, April and May 2001, from the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
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| Police Department | % ticketed white | % ticketed minority | Citations white | Citations minority |
| Abington | 11% | 67% | 64 | 3 |
| Acton* | 100% | 100% | 86 | 14 |
| Acushnet | 75% | 100% | 59 | 3 |
| Adams | 36% | 50% | 42 | 2 |
| Agawam | 33% | 42% | 286 | 19 |
| Amesbury | 24% | 22% | 144 | 9 |
| Amherst | 10% | 7% | 247 | 41 |
| Andover | 39% | 52% | 315 | 63 |
| Aquinnah | 14% | N/A | 7 | 0 |
| Arlington | 8% | 14% | 231 | 51 |
| Ashburnham | 33% | 67% | 67 | 3 |
| Ashby | 41% | 20% | 124 | 5 |
| Ashfield | 78% | N/A | 23 | 0 |
| Ashland | 31% | 0% | 95 | 7 |
| Athol | 40% | 0% | 35 | 1 |
| Attleboro | 91% | 81% | 368 | 31 |
| Auburn | 83% | 95% | 230 | 22 |
| Avon | 69% | 87% | 86 | 52 |
| Ayer | 37% | 45% | 284 | 29 |
| Barnstable | 24% | 54% | 578 | 39 |
| Barre | 41% | N/A | 61 | 0 |
| Becket | 46% | N/A | 13 | 0 |
| Bedford | 20% | 44% | 167 | 16 |
| Belchertown | 64% | 78% | 167 | 9 |
| Bellingham | 58% | 90% | 392 | 29 |
| Belmont | 19% | 19% | 248 | 52 |
| Berkley | 97% | N/A | 39 | 0 |
| Berlin | 92% | 100% | 26 | 5 |
| Bernardston | 69% | N/A | 13 | 0 |
| Beverly | 51% | 46% | 269 | 13 |
| Billerica | 53% | 77% | 349 | 39 |
| Blackstone | 40% | 71% | 356 | 17 |
| Blandford | 45% | N/A | 11 | 0 |
| Bolton | 17% | 43% | 36 | 7 |
| Boston | 43% | 53% | 3,430 | 2,860 |
| Bourne | 27% | 23% | 210 | 13 |
| Boxborough | 31% | 25% | 70 | 12 |
| Boxford | 29% | 14% | 73 | 7 |
| Boylston | 37% | 83% | 91 | 18 |
| Braintree | 7% | 20% | 408 | 49 |
| Brewster | 16% | 60% | 80 | 5 |
| Bridgewater | 6% | 14% | 746 | 36 |
| Bridgewater State College | 29% | 0% | 7 | 1 |
| Brimfield | 36% | 0% | 42 | 1 |
| Brockton | 84% | 79% | 85 | 38 |
| Brookfield | 72% | 100% | 165 | 7 |
| Brookline | 43% | 47% | 1,044 | 297 |
| Buckland | 22% | 100% | 9 | 1 |
| Burlington | 28% | 38% | 336 | 40 |
| Cambridge | 31% | 25% | 173 | 83 |
| Canton | 39% | 39% | 441 | 46 |
| Carlisle | 34% | 33% | 59 | 3 |
| Carver | 11% | 0% | 27 | 1 |
| Charlemont | 24% | 0% | 25 | 4 |
| Charlton | 57% | 44% | 149 | 9 |
| Chatham | 31% | 0% | 55 | 2 |
| Chelmsford | 54% | 52% | 121 | 29 |
| Chelsea | 86% | 90% | 482 | 181 |
| Cheshire | 44% | 75% | 54 | 8 |
| Chester | 48% | 100% | 29 | 1 |
| Chesterfield | 67% | 100% | 46 | 1 |
| Chicopee | 61% | 60% | 240 | 45 |
| Chilmark | 0% | N/A | 2 | 0 |
| Clarksburg | 48% | 100% | 44 | 4 |
| Clinton | 46% | 22% | 79 | 9 |
| Cohasset | 23% | 60% | 160 | 5 |
| Colrain | 75% | N/A | 4 | 0 |
| Concord | 61% | 85% | 250 | 20 |
| Conway | 43% | N/A | 7 | 0 |
| Cummington* | 100% | 100% | 13 | 1 |
| Dalton | 66% | 50% | 62 | 4 |
| Danvers | 21% | 23% | 337 | 13 |
| Dartmouth | 62% | 40% | 52 | 5 |
| Dedham | 33% | 36% | 642 | 121 |
| Deerfield | 24% | 100% | 76 | 1 |
| Dennis | 11% | 13% | 198 | 16 |
| Dighton | 30% | N/A | 10 | 0 |
| Douglas | 25% | 50% | 180 | 12 |
| Dover | 14% | 0% | 69 | 3 |
| Dracut | 15% | 17% | 306 | 23 |
| Dudley | 91% | 89% | 82 | 9 |
| Dunstable | 51% | 50% | 49 | 2 |
| Duxbury | 7% | 17% | 576 | 18 |
| East Bridgewater | 40% | 58% | 126 | 12 |
| East Brookfield | 30% | 33% | 101 | 6 |
| East Longmeadow | 65% | 75% | 78 | 8 |
| Eastham | 39% | 32% | 399 | 28 |
| Easthampton | 60% | 82% | 89 | 11 |
| Easton | 33% | 38% | 391 | 32 |
| Edgartown | 40% | 67% | 30 | 3 |
| Egremont | 54% | 25% | 159 | 8 |
| Environmental Police | 60% | 100% | 10 | 3 |
| Erving | 61% | 100% | 62 | 2 |
| Essex | 76% | 100% | 38 | 4 |
| Everett | 23% | 32% | 62 | 22 |
| Fairhaven | 37% | 0% | 78 | 2 |
| Fall River | 89% | 89% | 635 | 28 |
| Falmouth | 16% | 18% | 1,056 | 72 |
| Fitchburg | 25% | 33% | 123 | 36 |
| Foxborough | 14% | 25% | 92 | 8 |
| Framingham | 51% | 68% | 158 | 34 |
| Franklin | 21% | 29% | 720 | 42 |
| Freetown | 53% | 80% | 130 | 5 |
| Gardner | 73% | 88% | 207 | 16 |
| Georgetown | 92% | 100% | 25 | 2 |
| Gill | 61% | 100% | 83 | 1 |
| Gloucester* | 100% | 100% | 18 | 2 |
| Goshen | 69% | 100% | 36 | 2 |
| Grafton | 13% | 0% | 78 | 4 |
| Granby | 63% | 75% | 38 | 8 |
| Granville | 67% | N/A | 3 | 0 |
| Great Barrington | 78% | 33% | 32 | 3 |
| Greenfield | 45% | 14% | 108 | 7 |
| Groton | 55% | 100% | 94 | 1 |
| Groveland | 68% | 100% | 103 | 2 |
| Hadley | 32% | 33% | 134 | 18 |
| Halifax | 72% | 67% | 39 | 3 |
| Hamilton | 36% | 50% | 67 | 2 |
| Hampden | 62% | 67% | 101 | 3 |
| Hanover | 68% | 100% | 40 | 2 |
| Hanson | 76% | 75% | 175 | 12 |
| Hardwick | 59% | 67% | 44 | 3 |
| Harvard | 45% | 40% | 47 | 5 |
| Harwich | 12% | 22% | 151 | 9 |
| Hatfield | 64% | 100% | 28 | 3 |
| Haverhill | 92% | 90% | 85 | 10 |
| Hingham | 24% | 50% | 259 | 4 |
| Hinsdale* | 100% | 100% | 48 | 2 |
| Holbrook | 100% | N/A | 1 | 0 |
| Holden | 20% | 43% | 283 | 14 |
| Holland | 82% | N/A | 17 | 0 |
| Holliston | 45% | 62% | 97 | 13 |
| Holyoke | 86% | 67% | 81 | 6 |
| Hopedale | 23% | 25% | 116 | 8 |
| Hopkinton | 42% | 55% | 134 | 11 |
| Hubbardston | 31% | 0% | 74 | 3 |
| Hudson | 12% | 17% | 178 | 12 |
| Hull | 70% | 100% | 23 | 1 |
| Huntington* | 100% | N/A | 1 | 0 |
| Ipswich | 47% | 0% | 19 | 1 |
| Kingston | 32% | N/A | 25 | 0 |
| Lakeville | 75% | 75% | 55 | 4 |
| Lancaster | 37% | 48% | 111 | 27 |
| Lanesborough | 58% | 100% | 48 | 2 |
| Lawrence | 29% | 50% | 52 | 36 |
| Lee | 67% | 100% | 45 | 3 |
| Leicester | 46% | 71% | 54 | 7 |
| Lenox | 24% | 43% | 333 | 23 |
| Leominster | 50% | 61% | 224 | 49 |
| Leverett | 82% | 100% | 38 | 1 |
| Lexington | 70% | 86% | 86 | 22 |
| Leyden* | 100% | N/A | 2 | 0 |
| Lincoln | 49% | 44% | 331 | 25 |
| Littleton | 77% | 78% | 93 | 9 |
| Longmeadow | 20% | 40% | 203 | 15 |
| Lowell | 91% | 91% | 149 | 55 |
| Ludlow | 96% | 100% | 71 | 2 |
| Lunenburg | 50% | 0% | 36 | 2 |
| Lynn | 64% | 67% | 306 | 104 |
| Lynnfield | 60% | 100% | 10 | 1 |
| Malden | 81% | 82% | 293 | 57 |
| Manchester-by-the-Sea | 70% | 100% | 100 | 2 |
| Mansfield | 39% | 29% | 148 | 7 |
| Marblehead | 50% | 67% | 10 | 3 |
| Marion | 38% | 33% | 16 | 3 |
| Marlborough | 46% | 64% | 459 | 121 |
| Marshfield | 55% | 86% | 260 | 7 |
| Mashpee | 22% | 25% | 65 | 8 |
| Massasoit Community College | 80% | 57% | 20 | 7 |
| Mattapoisett | 13% | 0% | 98 | 3 |
| Maynard | 88% | 80% | 147 | 20 |
| MBTA | 86% | 83% | 21 | 6 |
| Medfield | 10% | 0% | 50 | 3 |
| Medford | 79% | 81% | 259 | 42 |
| Medway | 8% | 32% | 307 | 28 |
| Melrose | 32% | 50% | 63 | 4 |
| Mendon | 79% | 92% | 362 | 12 |
| Merrimac | 76% | 100% | 33 | 2 |
| Methuen | 36% | 50% | 129 | 38 |
| Metro Police Lower Basin Dist.* | 100% | 100% | 11 | 2 |
| Middleborough | 82% | 87% | 317 | 15 |
| Middleton | 54% | 67% | 93 | 6 |
| Milford | 26% | 33% | 162 | 18 |
| Millbury | 58% | 100% | 40 | 5 |
| Millis | 68% | 0% | 31 | 3 |
| Millville | 28% | 50% | 40 | 2 |
| Milton | 15% | 19% | 208 | 157 |
| Monson | 44% | 0% | 88 | 1 |
| Montague | 38% | N/A | 16 | 0 |
| Monterey* | 100% | 100% | 42 | 2 |
| Nahant | 53% | 0% | 15 | 1 |
| Nantucket | 73% | 0% | 15 | 2 |
| Natick | 77% | 90% | 498 | 124 |
| Needham | 5% | 0% | 160 | 17 |
| New Bedford | 35% | 39% | 217 | 31 |
| New Braintree* | 100% | 100% | 4 | 1 |
| New Salem | 83% | 100% | 6 | 1 |
| Newbury | 44% | 60% | 144 | 5 |
| Newburyport | 25% | 18% | 500 | 11 |
| Newton | 6% | 8% | 1,047 | 134 |
| Norfolk | 7% | 17% | 156 | 6 |
| North Adams | 85% | 100% | 54 | 2 |
| North Andover | 48% | 58% | 275 | 31 |
| North Attleborough | 34% | 42% | 285 | 24 |
| North Brookfield | 42% | N/A | 33 | 0 |
| North Reading | 30% | 50% | 89 | 4 |
| Northampton | 11% | 10% | 162 | 10 |
| Northborough | 47% | 61% | 169 | 44 |
| Northbridge | 6% | 8% | 481 | 13 |
| Northfield | 84% | 100% | 81 | 4 |
| Norton | 22% | 0% | 110 | 8 |
| Norwell | 48% | 33% | 94 | 3 |
| Norwood | 17% | 31% | 614 | 59 |
| Oak Bluffs | 41% | 33% | 46 | 6 |
| Oakham* | 100% | 100% | 36 | 2 |
| Orange | 62% | 100% | 34 | 2 |
| Orleans | 51% | 0% | 35 | 1 |
| Otis | 42% | 0% | 38 | 1 |
| Oxford | 28% | 0% | 32 | 3 |
| Palmer | 13% | 13% | 336 | 15 |
| Paxton | 24% | 0% | 176 | 6 |
| Peabody | 11% | 30% | 208 | 10 |
| Pelham | 82% | 94% | 134 | 16 |
| Pembroke | 24% | 0% | 233 | 5 |
| Pepperell | 14% | 33% | 192 | 6 |
| Peru | 0% | N/A | 3 | 0 |
| Petersham | 94% | 100% | 35 | 2 |
| Phillipston | 26% | 0% | 39 | 1 |
| Pittsfield | 74% | 63% | 320 | 30 |
| Plainville | 86% | 100% | 28 | 3 |
| Plymouth | 15% | 12% | 1,382 | 51 |
| Plympton | 48% | 0% | 65 | 1 |
| Princeton | 24% | 25% | 85 | 4 |
| Provincetown | 46% | 100% | 26 | 1 |
| Quincy | 5% | 9% | 341 | 102 |
| Randolph | 58% | 70% | 133 | 61 |
| Raynham | 88% | 78% | 112 | 9 |
| Reading | 7% | 0% | 333 | 22 |
| Rehoboth | 70% | 67% | 54 | 6 |
| Revere | 50% | 75% | 331 | 36 |
| Rochester | 35% | 100% | 34 | 1 |
| Rockland | 55% | 72% | 253 | 18 |
| Rockport | 58% | 50% | 38 | 2 |
| Rowe | 0% | N/A | 3 | 0 |
| Rowley | 59% | 100% | 74 | 2 |
| Royalston* | 100% | 100% | 13 | 1 |
| Rutland | 40% | 0% | 70 | 1 |
| Salem | 90% | 100% | 167 | 46 |
| Salisbury | 80% | 100% | 89 | 3 |
| Sandisfield* | 100% | N/A | 1 | 0 |
| Sandwich | 19% | 40% | 124 | 5 |
| Saugus | 74% | 100% | 39 | 3 |
| Scituate | 15% | N/A | 54 | 0 |
| Seekonk | 50% | 60% | 125 | 5 |
| Sharon | 57% | 77% | 83 | 13 |
| Sheffield | 99% | 100% | 95 | 2 |
| Shelburne | 71% | N/A | 28 | 0 |
| Sherborn | 15% | 29% | 139 | 17 |
| Shirley | 26% | 25% | 72 | 12 |
| Shrewsbury | 23% | 29% | 407 | 76 |
| Shutesbury | 69% | 25% | 51 | 4 |
| Somerset | 21% | 100% | 216 | 1 |
| Somerville | 46% | 52% | 37 | 21 |
| South Hadley | 74% | 67% | 46 | 9 |
| Southampton | 44% | 100% | 78 | 1 |
| Southborough | 13% | 21% | 143 | 42 |
| Southbridge | 61% | 61% | 62 | 18 |
| Southwick | 16% | 0% | 32 | 1 |
| Spencer | 61% | 80% | 122 | 5 |
| Springfield | 30% | 36% | 370 | 101 |
| State Police | 76% | 80% | 23,178 | 3,888 |
| Sterling | 47% | 90% | 128 | 10 |
| Stockbridge | 5% | 0% | 55 | 2 |
| Stoneham | 18% | N/A | 17 | 0 |
| Stoughton | 96% | 92% | 311 | 51 |
| Stow | 47% | 100% | 49 | 2 |
| Sturbridge | 65% | 82% | 224 | 11 |
| Sudbury | 11% | 18% | 486 | 61 |
| Sunderland | 59% | 100% | 17 | 2 |
| Sutton | 42% | 83% | 97 | 6 |
| Swampscott | 52% | 53% | 117 | 30 |
| Swansea | 29% | 33% | 213 | 3 |
| Taunton | 26% | 17% | 47 | 6 |
| Templeton | 18% | 100% | 170 | 2 |
| Templeton Developmental Center | 0% | N/A | 3 | 0 |
| Tewksbury | 45% | 62% | 155 | 13 |
| Tisbury | 46% | 0% | 13 | 1 |
| Tolland* | 100% | N/A | 1 | 0 |
| Topsfield | 72% | 100% | 81 | 6 |
| Townsend | 19% | 40% | 282 | 10 |
| Truro | 51% | 100% | 55 | 8 |
| Tyngsborough | 61% | 50% | 151 | 20 |
| Tyringham | 50% | N/A | 8 | 0 |
| Univ Of Mass Amherst | 74% | 100% | 38 | 6 |
| Univ Of Mass Boston | 20% | 50% | 10 | 10 |
| Univ Of Mass Dartmouth | 92% | N/A | 12 | 0 |
| Univ Of Mass Lowell | 100% | N/A | 1 | 0 |
| Univ Of Mass Worcester | 33% | N/A | 6 | 0 |
| Upton | 32% | 40% | 191 | 10 |
| Uxbridge | 10% | 20% | 105 | 5 |
| Wakefield | 24% | 33% | 202 | 9 |
| Wales* | 100% | N/A | 1 | 0 |
| Walpole | 22% | 29% | 196 | 14 |
| Walter East Ferneld State School | N/A | 0% | 0 | 1 |
| Waltham | 16% | 30% | 727 | 132 |
| Ware | 59% | 50% | 76 | 2 |
| Wareham | 63% | 54% | 147 | 13 |
| Warren | 47% | 50% | 19 | 2 |
| Warwick* | 100% | N/A | 1 | 0 |
| Watertown | 51% | 70% | 478 | 185 |
| Wayland* | 100% | 100% | 26 | 4 |
| Webster | 39% | 25% | 46 | 4 |
| Wellesley | 31% | 44% | 427 | 91 |
| Wellfleet | 45% | 44% | 204 | 18 |
| Wendell | 67% | N/A | 9 | 0 |
| Wenham | 28% | 0% | 111 | 3 |
| West Boylston | 37% | 50% | 82 | 4 |
| West Bridgewater | 32% | 50% | 110 | 14 |
| West Brookfield | 57% | 69% | 134 | 16 |
| West Newbury | 49% | 100% | 94 | 4 |
| West Springfield | 68% | 71% | 157 | 38 |
| West Stockbridge | 91% | 100% | 56 | 4 |
| West Tisbury | 22% | 75% | 45 | 4 |
| Westborough | 15% | 22% | 474 | 74 |
| Westfield | 52% | 64% | 235 | 22 |
| Westfield State College | 0% | N/A | 7 | 0 |
| Westford | 28% | 32% | 223 | 22 |
| Westhampton | 88% | N/A | 8 | 0 |
| Westminster | 84% | 86% | 228 | 22 |
| Weston | 19% | 19% | 217 | 37 |
| Westport | 70% | 100% | 123 | 2 |
| Westwood | 10% | 7% | 105 | 14 |
| Weymouth | 37% | 48% | 759 | 40 |
| Whately | 61% | 70% | 88 | 10 |
| Whitman | 94% | 75% | 48 | 4 |
| Wilbraham | 32% | 44% | 497 | 16 |
| Williamsburg | 81% | 100% | 58 | 1 |
| Williamstown | 40% | 50% | 158 | 8 |
| Wilmington | 12% | 30% | 327 | 23 |
| Winchendon | 48% | 100% | 31 | 1 |
| Winchester | 8% | 0% | 219 | 15 |
| Windsor* | N/A | 100% | 0 | 1 |
| Winthrop | 87% | 85% | 85 | 20 |
| Woburn* | 100% | 100% | 263 | 41 |
| Worcester | 83% | 91% | 1,006 | 206 |
| Worcester County Sheriff | 25% | N/A | 4 | 0 |
| Worthington | 71% | N/A | 14 | 0 |
| Wrentham | 47% | 81% | 176 | 16 |
| Yarmouth | 34% | 33% | 149 | 12 |
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