Tag: Vehicle and Traffic Enforcement

Why Police Traffic Stops Are Dangerous and Ineffective | American Civil Liberties Union

Millions of drivers are pulled over every year for minor violations like broken taillights or tinted windows. Data shows these stops rarely make roads safer, and instead lead to racial disparities, violence, and loss of trust in police.
— Read on www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/why-police-traffic-stops-are-dangerous-and-ineffective

Hennepin County Attorney’s Office introduces new strategy, comment period on prosecutions stemming from non-public safety traffic stops | Hennepin County

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office unveiled a new strategy on its prosecutions of cases emanating from a non-public safety traffic stop, also known as a “pretext” stop.

Read the entire Non-Public Safety Traffic Stop Policy here.

The Non-Public Safety Traffic Stop Policy is scheduled to be implemented on October 15, 2025, after a period to allow feedback from system and community partners
— Read on www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/2025/september/nps-traffic-stop-policy

Hennepin County chiefs, sheriff speak out against new policy on low-level traffic stops – KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News

Law enforcement heads are speaking out in opposition to a new policy from Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty to not prosecute felonies that arise from low-level traffic stops.
— Read on kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/law-enforcement-speak-out-on-new-hennepin-county-policy-on-low-level-traffic-stops/

Vital City | Safe Only at Certain Speeds

Not since the 1980s has New York been so roiled by bicycles. The offending element then was unruly bicycle messengers slicing through Manhattan gridlock with contracts, renderings and other valuable bits of commerce and culture. Today’s controversy is more diffuse. It encompasses a new industry (food deliveries mediated by rapacious app companies); a new class of workers (immigrant deliveristas, whose economic precarity is now compounded by Trump’s crackdown on undocumented workers); and a new technology (the e-bike) that lets any rider hit cruising speeds of 20 or even 25 miles per hour.

— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/safe-only-at-certain-speeds

CPD Working to ‘Fix’ Problem That Led to 211K Undocumented Traffic Stops, Police Official Tells City Panel | Chicago News | WTTW

CPD reported to state officials that officers made 295,846 traffic stops in 2024. But police dispatchers recorded that officers made an additional 210,622 stops in 2024 that were not documented, raising questions about how many traffic stops took place last year.
— Read on news.wttw.com/2025/07/02/cpd-working-fix-problem-led-211k-undocumented-traffic-stops-police-official-tells-city

Racial Disparities, Total Traffic Stops in Vermont Dropped During COVID But Are Again Increasing Study Finds

Black and Hispanic drivers in Vermont continue to be stopped and searched at higher rates than white drivers. That’s according to new research examining thousands of traffic stops across Vermont.  

The research paper is the latest update to an ongoing analysis of racial disparities in traffic policing data across Vermont led by University of Vermont Economics Professor Stephanie Seguino, Cornell Professor Nancy Brooks and Data Analyst Pat Autilio.  

Previous statewide analyses were released in 2017 and 2021. They spurred conversation and, in some cases, racial bias training at some Vermont law enforcement agencies.  This update adds data from 2020-23 and examines both the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to investigate whether Black, Hispanic and Asian drivers in Vermont face racial disparities in traffic policing.
— Read on www.uvm.edu/gund/news/racial-disparities-total-traffic-stops-vermont-dropped-during-covid-are-again-increasing