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Houston's police chief rescinded a directive requiring patrol officers to make at least one traffic stop per shift. The move came before the start of a city council meeting where an ordinance prohibiting the practice was passed.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/city-of-houston/2025/05/28/522466/houston-police-department-drops-traffic-stop-quotas-after-pushback-from-council-members-and-activists/

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Houston Police Department drops traffic stop quotas after pushback from council members and activists

HPD no longer requires patrol officers to make at least one traffic stop per shift. In 2024, Black drivers accounted for about 34% of HPD’s traffic stops despite comprising 23% of the city’s population.

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Survey: Americans Still Want Police To Cut Traffic Stops That Don't Make Anyone Safer — Streetsblog USA

Americans never lost their appetite for police reform in the traffic safety realm – and their leaders are starting to listen, a new study suggests.

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#RIPA Board reports for the 7th consecutive year that CA police stop non-white drivers and pedestrians at much higher rates and are more violent during stops of non-white and younger people. #trafficstops https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-ripa-report-2024-19998623.php?
#RIPA Board reports for the 7th consecutive year that CA police stop non-white drivers and pedestrians at much higher rates and are more violent during stops of non-white and younger people. #trafficstops https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-ripa-report-2024-19998623.php?
"In June, Snelling reported traffic stops were down by about 87,000 over the same time last year. But behind that reduction is a pattern of thousands of unreported police encounters, which accounted for one-third of all #trafficstops over the first seven months of Snelling’s tenure" #Chicago https://boltsmag.org/chicago-police-secret-traffic-stops/
Chicago Police Made Nearly 200,000 Secret Traffic Stops Last Year

Chicago police are required by law to report every traffic stop. But a new investigation found one-third of traffic stops went unreported.

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"In June, Snelling reported traffic stops were down by about 87,000 over the same time last year. But behind that reduction is a pattern of thousands of unreported police encounters, which accounted for one-third of all #trafficstops over the first seven months of Snelling’s tenure" #Chicago https://boltsmag.org/chicago-police-secret-traffic-stops/
Chicago Police Made Nearly 200,000 Secret Traffic Stops Last Year

Chicago police are required by law to report every traffic stop. But a new investigation found one-third of traffic stops went unreported.

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SF Police Union sues to stop traffic stop policy that ended stops and searches for low-level traffic offenses. The union says the policy should have gone to arbitration after they blocked it during meet and confer and declared an "impasse". #Trafficstops #Police https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-police-traffic-stops-19882550.php?