article_snippet: Officers increasingly ticketed black citizens  in regular traffic stops used to boost Justice Department's coffers, senior officials connected to a report by the Justice Department told The New York Times.
article_snippet: Blacks accounted for 86 per cent of traffic stops in 2013 - despite the fact Blacks only made up 63 per cent of the population, data published by the Missouri attorney general revealed.
article_snippet: Once Blacks were stopped Blacks were twice as likely to be searched.
highlights_snippet: Traffic tickets were used to boost police department's coffers, officials say .
  