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Keeping everyone safe when stopped by the police

Cities and states are starting to ban police from pulling drivers over for low-level traffic infractions as a way to reduce racial profiling. Last week, the City of Philadelphia became the first major U.S. city to pass such legislation when it banned police from issuing a traffic stop based on these infractions:

  • Driving with a broken taillight
  • Not wearing a seatbelt
  • Driving with minor damage to a bumper
  • Driving with a registration that has been expired for less than two months
  • Relocating a license plate to another visible part of the vehicle
  • Obstruction of view (such as an air freshener placed on the rearview mirror)

“We feel like an entire generation can be changed as it relates to their perception of law enforcement and law enforcement relations,” said Isaiah Thomas, the council member who championed the legislation. “Being pulled over by police is what I would like to call a cultural norm. We would purchase our cars based on the likelihood of being pulled over or not pulled over. The amount of people you’d drive with would be predicated on this idea of not wanting to be pulled over.” The legislation will not go into effect for another three months, but it continues a trend followed by other states and municipalities. In August, the City of Minneapolis proposed adopting similar measures as part of its August 2022 budget proposal, and the state of Virginia did something similar in March, when it decreed law enforcement could no longer stop drivers for a non-illuminated license plate, broken brake lights or tinted windows.

“Their job, as public servants, is to try and reduce crime so on occasion they’ll pull people over in a traffic stop to get some probable cause to search the car,” said Stacey Hervey, a criminal justice professor at Metro State University.

**How to reduce risk to yourself and defuse the Police Officer(s) Fear:

Keep your hands where the police can see them, as a Police Officer(s) approaches your car, at ALL TIMES !!**

I suggest that you and all of your passenger(s) place both of your hands outside the window and keep them there, as the Police Officer is approaching your car, so that they know that you aren’t reaching for something to harm them!

Stay calm Don’t run Don’t Resist a Police Officer Don’t obstruct the Police Officer Do not lie or give false documents. Don't be disrespectful OR allow any of your passenger(s) to become disrespectful towards the Police Officer(s) Let's give couple of different scenarios and the possible outcomes of each scenario:

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