The breakdown
According to the report, which was audited by Alex del Carmen, a professor of criminology with Texas A&M University, the Humble Police Department remained in compliance with the Texas Racial Profiling Law for 2023.
The report showed only one complaint was filed against the department in 2023 for racial profiling but was deemed unfounded following an internal investigation.
Of the 9,832 traffic stops made by the department in 2023, race or ethnicity was only known 75 times prior to the stop; the locations of traffic stops were primarily on city roads and U.S. highways, the report said.
A total of 452 arrests were made by Humble Police Department, according to the report, with arrest types varying from penal code violations to outstanding warrants found at the time of the traffic stop. Some of the arrests in the chart below account for people facing multiple charges at the time of arrest.
Quote of note
"I think it's very valuable that we use an outside source for transparency," Humble Police Chief Ken Theis said. "As you see in the report, [there was] one complaint of racial profiling. ... Internal Affairs reviewed it and was unfounded, and that's all we got all year long. Everybody's doing a great job."
