; Whereas Black women are approximately 17 percent more likely to be stopped in a police-initiated traffic stop than White women; Whereas Black women are roughly three times as likely to be arrested during traffic stop than White women; Whereas Black women are more likely than White men and three times as likely as White women to experience the use of force during police-initiated stops; Whereas police use of force against women rose by 353 percent from 1999 to 2015; Whereas the imprisonment rate for African-American women is twice that of White women; Whereas the average lifetime earnings gap of nearly $1 million between Black women and White men complicates reentry and increases the likelihood of recidivism; and Whereas there are only 45 elected Black women serving as prosecutors, comprising 1.8 percent of all elected prosecutors despite representing 20 percent of the population as a whole: Now, therefore, be it