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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 suspects because of the wide-set nose. >> reporter: five years later and about 20 miles north of where cas...

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 father. >> i was on the phone with him during some of the incident. he called me because he was bei...

>> 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 we're talking about is a policing strategy that impacted communities of color more than anyone else. >> report...

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