The NYPD stopped a total of more than 670,000 drivers in 2022 — roughly equivalent to the total population of Washington, D.C. That’s about the same number of pedestrians police officers stopped in 2011, at the height of the stop-and-frisk era.
Heydari said many departments rely on so-called pretextual stops, when they pull someone over for a minor traffic violation to look for evidence of a more serious crime. For instance, they might pull someone over for failing to signal before changing lanes, then search the car for guns and drugs.
“Everyone’s fearful for their life,” he said. “And police are constantly trained that, ‘You’re the one that needs to go home. Do everything you can to go home tonight.’”Researchers have found that the statistical chances of an officer being killed during a traffic stop, other than from a crash, are less than one in a million.
The Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates claims of police misconduct, has substantiated hundreds of complaints against officers accused of violating policy during traffic stops in the last decade. “It’s almost impossible to tease that from the data,” he said. “You’ve got to sort of go out there with the units and see what they’re doing. And are they doing it intelligently or just, you know, randomly stopping people to produce numbers?”
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