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"Of those 150 cases, 91 (61%) brought no felony charges," the report read. "In 119 pretextual stop cases where the final outcome was known, ten ended in conviction, of which only two were felonies.
State Rep. John Gillespie had sponsored a bill blocking local governments from limiting police departments' ability to conduct traffic stops. Memphis legislator asks for AG opinion on MPD's still ...
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State Sen. Brent Taylor filed a bill to prohibit local governments from banning pretextual stops. Here's what the Memphis-area Republican said about it.
In a pretextual stop (also called an investigatory stop), officers pull over people citing a minor issue, then start asking unrelated questions. University of Kansas professor Charles Epp in a study found that black drivers were three times more likely than whites to be subjected to "pretextual" stops, and five times more likely to be searched ...
Pretextual stops are traffic stops conducted by law enforcement for a traffic violation, but the purpose is for the officer to investigate an unrelated crime that the driver was not stopped for. A law enforcement officer can learn about a potential suspect from a traffic stop by identifying the driver, engaging in conversation with them, and ...
In a press release that accompanied the two bills' filing, Taylor directly mentioned the Memphis City Council's ordinance banning pretextual traffic stops for a short list of minor offenses.