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print we are the back tomorrow night at 5:00 p.m. eastern, good night. >> the videos are disturbing. their names are well known. traffic stops where drivers pay the ultimate price. quick shots fired subject is down too. >> in a system fraught with bias. >> with a black man four times more likely that a white man to be searched. >> how did we get here? >> are you training traffic stops or the most dangerous things that could happen? >> you are because they actually are.

>> these stops can exact a huge cost on the black community. physically. >> what has is done to you? >> i can only move my arm this far for. >> emotionally. >> it is the humiliation and financially. >> how much money have you paid in fines and fees? >> over 10,000 dollars. tonight the problem and some controversial reforms. >> i don't believe you need somebody with the gun to pull someone over in a traffic stop. >> unarmed citizens during traffic stops. horrible idea. >> cnn special report, traffic stop dangerous encounters. ♪ i am a traveler, always have been. i love to get in my car and go. >> you are that grandma. [laughter]

the 11 can keep up with. [laughter] took stephanie at bottom of atlanta is a librarian, mother of two, grandmother of five. and a lover of road trips. in may of 2019 she took to the open road driving north on i 80 live from georgia to north carolina for a funeral. she was driving solo with just her music to keep her company. >> it was either santana or prince. ♪ this is good driving music is in it? ♪ >> what point did you even noticed there were police trailing you? >> it was allowed before i realized it. >> why dude? >> i did not hear any sirens or

anything. i just kept driving listening to my music. >> the lights and sirens had been on for at least 10 minutes. >> didn't really pay any attention to the lights until the officer came up on the side of me. i looked over at him and i gestured what's going on? i'm then i looked back and i saw police cars. i thought are they after me? so we get to an exit or i can be around lights and people because i have heard too many horror stories of people of color being brutalized or killed by police officers. >> the officers tossed spikes which punctured her tires and made her pull over to the left immediately.

>> the two of them grabbed my arm and my hair and threw me on the ground. >> by your hair? >> both of my arms and my hair. >> at this point the officers are trying to get wrists handcuffed together. >> they were twisting and twisting and twisting. and then pop. >> she would learn later that her rotator cuff was torn and her shoulder dislocated. >> terrible, terrible pain. >> help me. please. >> now they have you on the what are you thinking? >> i thought i was going to be dead soon. they were going to kill me. >> ma'am you are under arrest. >> why? what did i do wrong? >> at bottom had done wrong was driving about 10 miles over the speed limit in failed to stop

for the blue light. for that she was injured. >> and going stand you up okay? >> it hurts, it hurts. >> lean up against the car for a quick search and nearly arrested but she did not go to jail. she went to the hospital instead after paramedics arrived and determined she had a dislocated shoulder. cook some folks are going to look at that and say well, i guess she deserved what she got. when you say to people? >> all she did was get confusing up oliver fast enough. if you are sentence for failed to heed view blue lights the punishment is a fight not being yanked out of the car by your hair, throw into the garden have your shoulder dislocated her quick scott holmes is a supervising district attorney for the civil litigation clinic. one of them bottoms attorneys. he later discovered bottom was a charge in the incident. >> she was charged with speeding 10 over and failure to heed blue lights and resisting an officer.

>> why do they you think they treated you this way? >> really? really? >> real talk. >> old black woman. and because of the fact that did not stop right away. i truly believe if i was white i would not of been treated that way. it was eight traffic stop of a black person like many you have heard about in the news over the past several years. the most recent one that is putting this issue in the headlines once again is this video partly warn you, it is disturbing. it's of the memphis police beating 29-year-old tyre nichols earlier this month. while trying to arrest them following a stop for alleged reckless driving. five officers have now been charged for murder. the d.a. tells cnn they beat him to death. there is a case of 20 year old

don tate right initially pulled over for a minor violation and air freshener hanging on his rearview mirror and expired tag. wright tried to fleet went officers tried to arrest him for an outstanding warrant. it ended in his death. he was shot by an officer's who she confused her gun for taser. also near minneapolis after pulling him over for a minor traffic violation, a broken tail light. his girlfriend said he reached for his identification and informed the officer he had a gun which he had a legal permit to carry. the officer claimed his hand was on the gun. >> don't pull it out. >> then there was a walter scott, pulled over for a busted taillight. he ran.

an officer shot him in the back killing him. the officer pleaded guilty. he was sentenced to 20 years for depriving scott of his civil rights, a federal charge. army officer was terrified. two officers in southern virginia approaches suv with guns drawn during a traffic s stop. what is going on? >> the officers reported they did not see the temporary paper tag in the car. quick some honestly frayed to get out very. >> he was pepper sprayed. >> get out of the car. >> he survived. what of the officers wasn't fired in a suit for more than a million dollars in damages. jurors awarded him lesson for grand. his attorney has requested a new trial. about 50000 of us drivers in the u.s. get stopped each and every

day. that is about 20 million per year. it is the most common civilian police interaction. but, it is more common for black folks. and potentially more dangerous. >> my best estimate is a black person getting into a car is twice as likely to be pulled over as a white person roughly speaking. >> professor frank baumgartner at the university of north carolina chapel hill is an expert on track to pick stops. he has analyzed 20 million of them in north carolina alone. he says the disparities are even more pronounced when it comes to searches. >> once and pulled over that's a double way of me. your four times greater likelihood of being searched. just being black. >> you've probably heard the phrase driving while black is a common refrain in the black community. now we have cold hard statistics that bear it out. so, we wanted to know how did we

get to a place where if you are black you are more likely to be pulled over and searched? >> black and white motorist on very different footing when they get on the road in terms of the risks they face very. >> cocounsel gave us a look at some of north carolina's traffic stop data. we took a look at the data reported by the police in salisbury, north carolina where stephanie was stopped. white population is nearly 50%. the black population is 37.5%. the rest is a mix of hispanic, asian, native american and other. the recorded stops reflect the demographic makeup of the population. they are roughly even. but when you zero in on what happens after the traffic stop,. >> we get done to searches there's a pretty significant jump here. >> about 60% of the people searched were black. 34.7 of the search were white. and 62.5% of those who had

salisbury officers use force on them following a traffic stock were black, less than 30% were white. north carolina has a mandated statewide collection of traffic stop data since 2000. that data from law enforcement shows a similar story across the entire states. take charlotte for example the state's largest city black folks are 34.5% of the population. but more than 51% of the stops. about 70% of the searches and nearly 78% of the drivers on whom officers use force following a traffic stop. according to his 2017 paper and his colleagues examining hundreds of police departments, they found similar behavior towards black and brown folks across 16 states. heart rate of drivers compared to white drivers. it's not like it's just in the

south. it's just in rural areas, it's just in urban areas. no, this is ubiquitous throughout the united states. trucks are how did we get here? turns out the answer is guns, drugs, and money. >> are making lots and lots of money. >> that is ahead. it had a l of attitude- for a rookie. and a lot of pepperoni. the suay series. the greatest menu of all time.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ outside the twin cities, near the site of the annual minnesota state fair, is a simple memorial for a quiet man after his death has been making a lot of noise. >> he was a loving caring young

man. he started working when he was 13 years old. he asked me for a 100-dollar pair of sneakers i told him he needed to go get a job. in which he did regrets when he died days before his 33rd birthday he was working as a school cafeteria supervisor. a job he loved. >> he was more than just a supervisor. he was a role model. he knew all of those children by names. >> he helped some children pay for their lunches. >> might son cared about people. castile was killed in july of 2016. just hours after stopped by his mother's house for short visit. >> i said you know your mama loves you. and they gave him a big old hug and he laughed. >> your brake lights are out. you have insurance? castile as a legal permit to

carry her to do a firearm on me. >> don't reach for. >> and he reached for his identification, the officer who claimed he saw castile hand on his gun racks and lightning fast. >> i woke up to my daughter crying and screaming he was on facebook dying. >> he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm. told him to get his idea, sir, is drivers license. >> oh my god please don't tell me he is dead. >> i can tell you i knew and my son pastor. i had that feeling like he had given birth i started having those contractions i knew that he was suffering. that he was trying to live. when the contractions stopped i knew that he was dead for. >> that night he was stopped for

a broken tail light. a minor traffic infraction something that it happened to him more than 52 times since 2002. >> why do you think your son was stopped so many times? >> because he was black. because he was black. i mean nobody can be that unlucky. nobody is that horrible of a driver. it wasn't he ran a stop sign or he was in a car accident. it is none of that. it is what they call now pretext stops. >> for the most part equipment violations are often used as a pretext to pull someone over. tends to be people on the poor side of town. often times it is minorities. those are stops for the officer first decided they wanted to have a conversation with the driver. and second, figured a way to pull them over progress when you are saying, relation your talk investigation? chris a conversation goes like this due to why pulled you over? >> nostrum no idea but. >> he made an illegal right

turn. >> i did question her. >> yesterday only guns in the car? are you carrying any drugs? you mind if i search the car? what's police official sells pretextual traffic stops became a common tool used by police to search for drugs and guns. and in 1996 the supreme court ruled it did not violate the fourth amendment prohibition against unreasonable seizures. experts say finding the initial reason to pull someone over is easy. >> was 500 aspects of the traffic in north carolina between the traffic of code in the vehicle code. >> is not just north carolina, that became quickly apparent during afternoon with an officer of the oakland california police department. >> that drove by has a bumper that's loose at the vehicle code violation. all lights must work his top break white does not work so i could stop in for that. >> are 18000 police departments across the u.s.

and note standards for which violators to pull over. >> are you still saying traffic stops when the most dangerous things that can happen? >> they are pretty may stop summary for what you believe is a typical broken tail light. you don't know if they just shot somebody. you have to remember there are guns in the streetsboro. >> opd pulled nearly 1200 guns off the street in 2021 alone. >> and is always in the top of your head. >> traffic stops are inherently dangerous. i'd say next to a domestic violence call were obsolete tempers are flaring a traffic stop is a very, very dangerous situation for. >> and struggle of the fraternal order of police. he says officers are trained to be prepared for the worst. such as this 1998 killing of a sheriff's deputy by a driver pulled over for speeding in central georgia. this new mexico state police officer wasn't murdered in

february 2021. after he pulled over a driver is part of a homeland security investigation. overall, not just during traffic stop 73 officers were intentionally killed in 2021 according to the fbi. at least a 55 by guns. but police officer deaths during traffic stops are rare. at 2019 study out of the university of arkansas examined thousands the police initiated traffic stops in florida over a ten-year period and it found that one officer is killed out of every 6.5 million stops. an officer is seriously injured in one out of about every 360,000 stops. put another way, 98% of traffic stops resulted in no injuries to an officer or minor injuries according to the study. another study, this are from 2013 suggest pretextual stops in

the number of the stops in nashville and the rates of crime there. >> i've talked to a lot of police chiefs. >> on top of all this frank that chapel hill researcher says these types of stocks do not net police a lot of guns or drugs. >> they only find contraband about one quarter of the time. that means three quarters of the people are searched fruitlessly. >> we now know castile was a pretextual stop pics. >> and going to stop a cart of reason to pull it over. the driver looks more like one of our suspects because of the wide set nose. >> five years later and about 2e castile was killed another black man was killed during a traffic stop.

20-year-old daunte wright. he called me because he was being pulled over. he said mom i have been pulled over and i said for what? he had an air freshener in his rearview mirror for quick student that's a legitimate reason for police officers to pull someone over? >> know to be pulled over for minor traffic stop it is systemic racism. it is a way for police officers to have a reasoning to pull someone over. it ends up in death or incarceration that doesn't need to have happen to precook once a police learned he had a warrant they tried to arrest him. writer tried to flee. [background noises] taser taser taser. i just shot him. >> what we are hopes and dreams for dante?

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♪ ♪ we are about st. louis county, missouri precook snow we are out getting ready to go to upton parks. >> it is made up of about 90 different municipalities. >> now we are normandy and just change thank you. quickset for likenesses every half a mile or half mile. >> right. >> eight lifetime resident gave us a tour. we have come here because of traffic stops aren't always about safety hunting contraband or crime. some cities use traffic stops to raise money. this "new york times" analysis tells it best friend there are more than seven or 30 municipalities across the u.s. that depend on tickets and fees for at least 10% of the revenue. >> these aren't relatively small cities, right? >> they're making lots and lots

of money on ticket revenue because they had too. it's not coming from property taxes. >> she says were because it has gotten better in the last few years. we'll get to that part of the story in just a bit. >> how many times have you been stopped? >> i him in st. louis but don't keep track of it, five? ten? >> 10 is a minimum amount of times a been locked up so take that in dublin. i have stopped no less than 20 times. >> locked up for failing to pay traffic tickets. for things like not having her cart registered. not having insurance or driving with a revoked license. click side to kids in private school single parents but if i had to pay tuition and cannot pay my traffic tickets i couldn't pay tuition. if i had to pay the rent i paid the rent. >> meat mixture have this straight. you get a ticket for not having a registration done. then what happens question or

clicking on the money to pay the fine to go to court. go to court you have court costs, tickets plus fees, you know $3. jeff $300 to pay today? no they put you on a payment plan. every month come see us and pay this by the 21st with not will issue a warrant on the 22nd. make your payments on time. so, let's say you don't make that payment you get a warrant for if you have the resources you can pay but most of all don't have the resources so you run and catch me if you can precook so many warrants as your backup? >> at one point i was wanted in 11 different municipalities for. >> 11 different municipalities? how did you live at that? >> carefully. on a wing and a prayer. >> if you were it seemed nearly impossible not to get caught. >> so, if you got picked up by any municipality in st. louis, once they picked to update or in your name consisted but if you

were wanted anywhere else you did not go home you and to all those places first to make arrangements before you could go home. i had support i had someone to go and check on how much i owed the municipalities. i had someone i could borrow money from to help me get out of jail. other people stood right next to me got their list of places to go and just were told to wait it out they had no other option of how to get home. >> how much money have you paid in fines and fees? >> over 10,000 dollars. >> 10,000 dollars? over. >> he practice went on for years before the department of justice exposed it nationally and their 2015 report on the ferguson missouri police department saying that departments policing reinforces racial bias and its officers saw people as potential offenders and sources of rev revenue. the court filed the uprisings in

response to the police killing of michael brown there. >> to message you better not only as a city but as state and the country. we must all work to address issues of racial disparity in all aspects of society. >> we have 50 fergusons in st. louis for many of those municipalities have been using poor black residents as atm machines for years. >> blake earns arch city defenders a nonprofit law firm in st. louis. >> you are saying impoverished were paying a special tax in the form of tickets, court fines, bond? >> exactly break works around the same time of the d.o.j. ferguson report, group begin suing some of the municipalities. there are seven suits filed in total, three have been settled. >> what we suing over? >> the basic claim it is

unconstitutional to treat people with money differently than people without money. if you have money to pay ticket you are done. if you don't then you have to go to this sort of process of warrants and arrests for. >> estate also passed a bill making it difficult to force payments from people who don't have the money. following all of this, the numbers to drop dramatically. for instance, take saint in one of the media's apologies arch city defenders is suing for the city has denied any wrongdoing believes is traffic enforcement reduced accidents and did not racially profiled drivers. 2014 saint and brought it about $3.3 million from fines and fees. by 2019 it was 426000.87% drop. >> of these numbers pretty consistent that many of them have dropped about 80 -- 90%? >> at the hyatt 80 or 90% some

of them are like 50 or 60%. >> there is a massive improvement. but, let's give some context. >> ferguson in 2014 there were 33000 warrants in the city of about 22000 people. >> more warrants than people? >> more warmth than people. that has come down significantly in 2019 there were just under 4000 warrants. that is a huge drop. still quite high that we think about the fact that's maybe just under one fifth of the population that is at risk of being arrested at any moment in time. >> i had to pray and meditate more. >> justice for those who seek it. >> you got to find a way to find peace. so i created a space within my house i called the sanctuary. a way to sit and try to make magic out of mist. quick she was more than that it is why she is a lead plaintiff

in one of arch cities remaining lawsuits. another suit where she is named has been settled. and did receive some money. >> i would like for them to say you were correct, our behavior and the passes been deplorable and this is what we're going to to do to help create the change. >> easier said than done and she knows it. which is white she still has her sanctuary and prayer. ahead, we had to oakland or they don't do stops like they used to. the highest level of safety you can earn? subaru. when it comes to longevity, who has the highest percentage of its vehicles still on the road after ten years? subaru. and when it comes to value, which popular brand has the lowest cost of ownership? lower than toyota, honda, or hyundai? subaru. it's easy to love a car you can trust. and

♪ ♪ this vehicle that passed us did not have license plates for. >> technically can pull this because of her? >> exactly. >> the police sgt did not pull anyone over because it's oakland, california. the way the department does traffic stops hasn't changed. >> what were the tactics like back of the day? >> we have crime spikes in oakland will be given a direction to stop everything moving. that meant essentially every vehicle that you could find and vehicle code violations stop that vehicle and took enforcement action. it was the belief at that time that would reduce crime. it didn't reduce crime because it didn't focus on those who are driving crime. ask what to do? works we eroded trust in our communities like we didn't know at the time.

high-speed fastener tent homicide progress ron armstrong is a 24 year veteran of the oakland police department chief now for two years but he is help lead the transition away from large-scale pretextual stops after 2016 stanford study highlighted racial disparities by the force and a city that is about 25% black and 25% brown. >> they looked at 28000 traffic stops over a years time. what they found is one in four black men were handcuffed compared to one in 15 white men. on that 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 are talking about is a policing strategy that impacted communities of color more than anyone else. >> it was that way for decades in oakland in native former opd captain. i met him more than a decade ago

when i lived and worked here. >> how do you think of racism it shows itself in policing? >> i think racism bias complete with a huge role in terms of decision-making we have officers out on the field. often times are out policing in underserved communities that is how you get. it sounds like shooting fish in a barrel there are going to be somebody different violations the officers and with a lot of exercising but when he or she do the same thing of the person was white? my answer is no. >> that we are trying to do is get away from the old practice of saturn the areas with police officers in stopping everybody you can until you find the right person. ♪ they tried to stop specific types of vehicles that show up in pictures and videos of crime scenes. >> are getting real-time information coming in as you are working? >> that is correct because that's what happened shortly after he stopped by the scene of a shooting at a gas station for.

>> this information was sent out the actual suspect vehicle from the student right now for. >> is just happened you already have the suspect vehicle per. >> exactly throughout the day i'm actually looking for this carpet with the account like the first am going to do is pull up this as we drive, he does just that. >> look at that photo. that one has a spoiler, this one doesn't. >> out no stop. >> a short time later we spotted another cadillac parked, plates stripped, nobody inside. look, there is a hat that looks exactly the same. >> of those bullet holes? >> i think you need to be a detective. as it turned out to be the alleged shooter's car. next we have reduced the number of overall stops by nearly 60%. and that is intentional. we need to stop making traffic stops that are not meeting our overall goal which is reducing violent crime.

>> ending stops that don't reduce crime but do cause trauma and increase it just trust of police is the goal of a brand-new law in philadelphia. >> extremely excited to be able to introduce this ordinance to them progress june of 2021 freshman city councilman introduced a bill that turns a handful of traffic infractions like a minor bumper damage this means a driver be stopped for them alone. ivy stopped in the city of philadelphia more times and i can remember it well over 20 times. >> he said one of the most humiliating happened here as a recent college grad. >> were in the northwest section of philadelphia. ask a member officers that you look guilty get out of the car for the never talked about a traffic violation for they searched me. that is the kind that gets dismissed, the when they search us they check between your butt cheeks. they check under i put me in

handcuffs and put me in the back of the carper than they search the entire car. somebody called in letting me out of the car. and speeding off i'm working man with a college degree, did not do anything wrong. it takes your pride and self-esteem in the moment you just can't get that back. >> his experiences the experiences of his friends led him to push for the driving equality bill. i went into effect in march of 2022. thomas had high hopes for it when we interviewed him just before the law went into effect. >> we are looking at hopefully around 100,000 less traffic stops a year. it's important to thomas he said those stops take a large toll on black drivers with a very small, nearly nonexistent return for the city. tuxedos city of philadelphia the year we examined three and a

thousand motor vehicle stops. less than 1% of time did that stop and search lead to some type of contraband or illegal weapon. >> that figure comes from the defender association in philadelphia. a city dealing with violent crime. this is not ideal timing perksno philadelphia on the city's newlb law up next. the monster, the outlaw... and you can't forget about the boss. sometimes- you just want to eat your heroes. the subway series. the greatest menu of all time.

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55-year-old woman running for her life. the city hasn't seen a staggering statistic. >> days after councilman thomas helped pass the driving equality bill. the city passed a horrific milestone. >> a mother in south philadelphia gunned down in the street. the police say her husband pulled the trigger making her the city's 500th homicide victim in 2021. >> 500 homicides, making it the deadliest year on record in the city of brotherly love. it would climb above 550 before the year's end. >> i will tell you, one of my thoughts was that, no, this is not ideal timing. >> we eninterviewed philadelphia's police officer, she told us it was not the ideal time for the driving equality bill because of high crime and

reduced staff. >> we don't have the same staffing numbers that we had last year, a year ago, let alone five years ago. and then we're introducing this operational change. my thing is, what can we do now to get ahead of criminals having the perception that they could go and do whatever they want? we're not ceasing police work, i can't be any clearer that addressing violent crime is our number one priority. the only difference with this is saying it cannot be the primary reason that i pulled you over. >> the law made eight violations secondary violations. passed through emissions and inspection stickers, late registration, minor bumper damage, having one taillight out. relocation of a license plate. items hanging from a rear view miles an hour roar. and it contains a death component. >> so that we could assess the

data of the bill one year or 18 months in. >> the step in philadelphia are incremental. limited changes with the hope it produces big impact. changes it implemented will be big. >> the goal of a resolution pass in may of 2021 is to transform the way the city of 30,000 is policed. >> i truly believe that if this was implemented prior to april 11th, our son would still be with us today. >> we interviewed brooklyn's mayor mark elliott and mayor. as they pushed for the changes. one main piece is police no longer answer mental health calls. >> if a call is about mental health, it's in a different department to handle those calls, mental health professionals will handle the

calls. >> and low level calls will be addressed from somebody outside of the department. >> i don't believe you need to have a gun to pull someone over in a traffic stop. >> some police units believe that's dangerous and are strongly opposed. >> unarmed citizens doing traffic stop, horrible idea. and i would advise them do not do that. when you stop someone, you know, an equipment violation you don't know if they just robbed a bank or if they're wanted for murder. >> arguing it i was quote, misguided and the changes will make the city less safe. >> we are, um, determined to make it happen. our community spoke real loud and clear, and they said, enough is enough. >> elliott is no longer mayor, and the resolution has not yet been turned into enforceable city ordinances. the committees

making recommendations for the ordinances hope to present them to city council before the end of spring. the council would then need to vote on them. >> the officer who touched off the current debate on policing in brooklyn center when she shot dante wright instead of tazing him, now stands convicted of first and second-degree manslaughter for his death. >> find the defendant guilty. >> kimberly potter was sentenced to two years in policen in february of 2022. >> we want to thank community support. everybody whose supported us in this long fight for accountability. >> valerie castillo, orlando's mom said she never got the accountability she wanted. the officer who shot her son said he did it because he saw his hand

on his gun. and castillo's gun which he had a permit for and was loaded. the officer was found not guilty of manslaughter in 2023. >> he would have to face his creator. and i hope he die tonight. >> i meant that. i mean that, still to this day. that man took something from me that god gave me. you had no right. you had no right to take him from me. and i hope that you die tonight. >> you often hear people saying, um, forgiveness is the only way forward. >> oh, please, forgiveness is overrated. that's not my job, i'm not god. >> remember 7-year-old stephanie bottom? >> there's still no understanding as to why they is it what they did to me. >> since the incident, she's had surgery to repair her

shoulder. >> what has this done to you, why don't you have friends no more. >> well, for one reason, i can only move my arm this far this way and this far that way. so, i can't really do my hair. but, looking in the mirror, it just brings back bad memories. >> the criminal case against bottom has been closed. >> the district attorney offered to let her plead guilty to failure to heed light in exchanges for dismissing the speeding. and took that and paid a fine. >> and bottom has now filed her own suit, suing two salsbury police officers and the city of salsbury well the count sheriff's. her suit alleges she was the victim of unlawful profiling, and unlawful search. both the salsbury police and the

count sheriff's declined to comment. but, the sheriff's department adds they support the actions of their deputy. in court filings, all the defendants denied the allegations. >> and the officers that have hurt me to be accountable for what they did. >> that's it. >> is it? i wonders after her experience what she thought about police and policing. >> i still feel that we need them. we need them. >> every family we talked to who suffered trauma or death during a police traffic stop felt the same way. >> do you think that we as a society need police? >> i can say yeah. i think that the police should live in the district that they serve as well. and see how that works out. you know? >> do we need police? we do. but, they need to have better training and they need to be a part of the bigger picture, not

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