Reducing Fatal Crashes, Fighting Crime, and Social Control Evaluating Three Models of Police Traffic Stops

• In Event: Levers of Power in the Criminal Legal System

Brief Overview

In this paper, we show that traffic enforcement does not coincide with high-crash times where enforcement may be most helpful. We argue that these findings challenge the theory that police engage in traffic stops to improve traffic safety.

Authors

• Alexander Love, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Michael Greenberger, University of Denver

• Ye Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Frank R. Baumgartner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill