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“We have seen far too often how traffic delays can quickly escalate and become deadly,” Bradford said in a statement. It would give cities and counties the power to remove police officers entirely from traffic stops and let other, unarmed government employees do the work. This prevented Berkeley from moving forward with its much-touted plan to have unarmed employees handle certain minor traffic situations. Already in the stories of Nichols and Anderson—both black California men whose final moments of terror were captured on video during traffic stops gone awry—there is strong reason for lawmakers to embrace change and press ahead with police reform. Black people, for example, made up 15% of all traffic and pedestrian stops, even though we only make up 6% of the population.
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