Get police out of the business of traffic stops [View all]

[sciencescience]

By TJ Grayson and James Forman Jr.
March 16, 2021

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Many of the deaths garnering media attention in recent years resulted from armed police officers enforcing traffic violations, even minor ones. A Minnesota police officer pulled over Philando Castile for a broken taillight, then fired seven shots at him. A Texas state trooper stopped Sandra Bland for not signaling when she changed lanes. Three days later, she was dead in a jail cell. According to a Washington Post database, about 11 percent of all fatal shootings by police in 2015 occurred during traffic stops; Black people accounted for a disproportionate share of those deaths.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/16/remove-police-traffic-stops/