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Bastrop police acted on thousands of traffic stops in 2025 with no racial profiling complaints or use-of-force incidents resulting in bodily injury, according to the department’s annual report.
Police Chief Vicky Steffanic presented the report to City Council during its March 10 meeting. The report, required by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, includes all traffic stops that resulted in a citation, warning or arrest.
Bastrop officers made 6,882 contacts last year. Steffanic said race or ethnicity was unknown in almost all of those stops.
“The race or ethnicity was not known for 99.8% of our stops,” Steffanic said. “(The remaining percentage) is attributed to knowing somebody has a warrant and they’ll know the race prior to the stop.”
According to the report, men were stopped nearly twice as often as women. Highway stops accounted for 4,375 of the total.
White drivers accounted for 3,770 contacts, followed by 2,145 Hispanic drivers, 712 Black, 162 Asian and 93 Native American.
About 66% of those stopped were not residents of the Bastrop 78602 ZIP code.
Officers conducted 191 searches during traffic stops, with 86% resulting in the discovery of contraband. Of the 165 discoveries, 135 involved drug possession, reports said.
Bastrop police made 136 arrests, including 76 for outstanding warrants.
The report also showed differences in how stops concluded. White drivers received warnings in around 71% of stops, compared with about 66% for Black drivers and 59% for Hispanic drivers.
In addition to receiving the report, council approved Steffanic’s request to apply for several grants, including a $20,000 Department of Homeland Security grant for threat assessment and risk intelligence software, and a grant from Vested Interest in K9s Inc. for a ballistic vest for a police K9.
