Comment by Noumenon72

That is my impression from reading many other anecdotes from police describing their daily work, as well as various videos and true cop shows. You don't necessarily even have to attribute it to race; just that a demographic of employed programmers is going to have better impulse control, protective social status, habits of deference to cops, and overall good behavior than a demographic of low-income "frequent fliers" who have had many negative interactions with the police before. Being in that second demographic is what causes the disproportionate citations. Not in the choices made by the police.