US President Barack Obama has revealed that he was stopped repeatedly by police officers for being an African-American.

Addressing US law enforcement officials on Tuesday, Obama recalled how he had been stopped by cops and received tickets that he did not deserve.

“Most of the time I got a ticket, I deserved it. I knew why I was pulled over,” Obama told the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s annual conference in Chicago.

“But there were times when I didn’t,” the president added. “And as a report that came out just this week reminded us, there are a lot of African-Americans, not just me, who have that same kind of story of being pulled over or frisked or something, and the data shows that this is not an aberration.”

A recent study conducted by The New York Times has found that the US police stops African-American drivers at disproportionate rates, compared to white drivers.

Dubbed Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black the report shows that, for example, in Greensboro, North Carolina, black drivers account for 54 percent of stops while they only make up 39 percent of the population.

The study, which was released on October 24, also revealed that the city's officers were twice as likely to search black drivers' cars even though they were less likely to be carrying contraband than White residents.

Obama admitted that “when you aggregate the cases and you look at it, you got to say there’s some racial bias in the system.”

He also noted that problems of racial justice or injustice have been a recurring issue “throughout this country’s history in every institution.”

The president’s remarks came amid public outrage over the brutal arrest of a black female student (pictured above) who was violently slammed to the ground and dragged out of her school classroom by an officer on Monday.

Obama is trying to garner support in Congress and among law enforcement agencies for measures aimed at reducing high incarceration rates in the US, as well as reforming sentencing guidelines in the country.