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. Non-public safety stops also expose police officers to unnecessary danger. The most common proactive policing activity preceding a fatality is an officer-initiated traffic stop.
With such clear evidence that non-public safety stops create pointless risk without improving public safety, some law enforcement agencies are directing officers to cease stopping motorists for violations that don’t present a clear danger and focus on safety risks.de-emphasize non-moving violations while aggressively policing speeding, driving while impaired, and other violations that cause immediate danger. As a result, the city saw the percentage of searches of vehicles driven by Black motorists decrease fivefold, and traffic fatalities decreased in the years after police implemented the policy.for secondary traffic violations like loud exhaust or dangling ornaments from rearview mirrors.
More police chiefs and prosecutors should follow these examples and focus resources on offenses with an identifiable victim or that pose a danger to community members. Non-public safety stops create unnecessary points of contact with a criminal legal system that causes far too much unnecessary trauma and harm, particularly for Black people. These stops allow bias, are dangerous, and don’t make us safer.
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