Ticketing the unclicked

The City Manager reports that 1468 individuals were issued seatbelt citations in the second quarter of 2007.

Per Council request, these citations are broken down by race, as follows:

My congratulations to the "Unknown"s.

This is about the distribution I'd expect, given the demographics of the city, though I am startled to see that there are sixteen people a day being busted for seatbelt violations. The report does not make clear whether these are primary busts — driver pulled over specifically for lack of belt — or if they include busts which only incidentally include seatbelt citations. More surprising: 444 of these busts, a good 30 percent, came from the Hefner Division, which covers maybe a fifth of the city.