On March 6, 2022, NYPD officers shot an 18-year-old driver as he was allegedly fleeing a traffic stop in the Bronx. On Feb. 15, 2022, an officer fired his gun during a routine traffic stop in Manhattan’s Upper East Side in the middle of the afternoon. This happened a year after an NYPD officer fired six shots at a car being pulled over for tinted windows and a loud exhaust.

Despite their danger, traffic stops are the most common form of police-civilian interactions in this country. See Libby Doyle and Susan Nembhard, Police Traffic Stops Have Little To Do With Public Safety, Urban Institute (April 26, 2021). A 2021 New York Times investigation uncovered that the police killed more than 400 unarmed motorists in the United States over the past five years. See David D. Kirkpatrick, et al., Pulled Over, New York Times (Oct. 31, 2021). Unfortunately, many of these killings stemmed from traffic stops based on technical violations like broken taillights and tinted windows.

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