Police Working To Improve Traffic Stop Data in Fargo

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Police Department is working to improve data on traffic stops in the city.

Chief Dave Zibolski told the Police Advisory and Oversight Board that it will help to gather data to determine trends, complaints, ethnic background and analysis.

Traffic stops currently go through an electronic system but it does not cover all instances.

Warnings are verbal and there has been no way to track those.

But the department will soon input all of that data into the electronic system.

“In terms of are we capturing enough data? No and not just in traffic but in everything we do. If you think about our community and others we’ve got about 10% foreign born. We have ethnicities that how do you track them?” said Zibolski.

He said the way the federal databases are setup, they are missing the ethnicity data.

Zibolski says the improved system should be up and running in around 30 days.