The Los Angeles Police Department defines a pretextual stop as one in which officers conducting a minor traffic or code violation escalate it into an investigation of a more serious crime unrelated to the initial violation.
The Los Angeles Police Commission updated its policy on so-called "pretextual stops" Tuesday to discipline officers -- beginning with additional training -- if they don't articulate in the moment why a traffic or other minor violation escalates into a criminal investigation.defines a pretextual stop as one in which officers conducting a minor traffic or code violation escalate it into an investigation of a more serious crime unrelated to the initial violation.
"Those pretextual stops do not result in guns being taken off the streets, those pretextual stops do not result in curtailing murders and curtailing shootings ... there is no data that anyone can point to that establishes that pretextual stops curtail violent crime in our city," said Briggs, adding that data collected for the Racial and Identity Profiling Act "shows just the opposite.
The policy also states that pretextual stops can only happen if officers "are acting upon articulable information" and not a "mere hunch or on generalized characteristics," including race.
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