Pretextual Stop News Today

After the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Angeles Police Commission updated a policy earlier this ...

In nashville over a seven year pe period, found no relationship over the number of stops and the rate of crime there. >> i talked to a number of kplees chiefs. >> reporter: unc chapel hill researcher says these type of stops do not net police a lot of guns or drugs. >> only find contraband about 1/4 of the time, that means 3/4 of the people are searched fruitlessly. >> reporter: we now know felando castile was a pretextual stop. >> have reason to pull it over, driver looks like one of our suspec...

Hill researcher says these types of stops do not net police a lot of guns or drugs. >> i found they find contraband about one quarter of the time. that means three-quarters of people searched fruitlessly. >> we now know philando castile was a pretextual stop. >> the driver looks more like one of our suspects because of the wide set nose. >> five years later, and about 20 miles northwest of whe castile was killed another black man was killed during a traffic stop. 20-year-old dante write, a young...

>> just advised we had our tenth homicide. >> reporter: leroux armstrong, chief of the department now, helped drive the department away from pretextual stops after a 2017 stanford studies, raised alarm for the force -- they looked at 28,000 traffic stops over a years time and found 1 in 4 black men were hand cuffed compared to 1 in 15 white men and about 60% of those folks that were stopped were black folks. plain and simple, are we talking about racial profiling here? >> i think what were talki...

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Police Commission updated its policy on so-called "pretextual stops" on March 1 to discipline ...

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Purpose. >> yes. >> he left. he left there and the officers decided to stop him with a pretextual stop. so it had nothing to do -- they were hoping to find drugs. they were hoping to find weapons. they were hoping to find something illegal to charge him with. but -- but in this particular case, that did not happen. we cannot change -- the police department cannot change the narrative of what happened on this particular stop. >> well, certainly, was obviously -- it was obviously incredibly hard t...

They should have had a more objective view of what happened and should have stuck to that. youre talking about professional law enforcement individuals. thats their obligation and commitment they made to the citizens and state and in this particular case, the university. >> when you see this body cam footage that we have seen, and we have seen the other two different perspectives. lets talk about the one that was on the officer who shot the unarmed man. how did this routine traffic stop turn int...