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There is a new campaign to educate young people on what to do and not do when pulled over in a traffic stop is underway.Jackie Carter, the executive director of the Alliance for Safe Traffic Stops spoke with 11 News about why she says it's matter of life or death.Nearly five years ago and more than 1,000 miles away, the 2016 police shooting death of Philando Castille during a traffic stop in Minneapolis altered the course of Virginia native Carter's life.“Something happened that day for me that literally changed my life and I have sons,” Carter said.Since that fateful incident, Carter created the “Not Reaching" pouch -- a plastic pack that holds your license, registration and insurance and sits on your car's air vent so drivers don't have to reach into their belongings.She also started the alliance for safe traffic stops.Carter is now on a mission to get traffic stop training implemented nationwide in driver's education courses for teens through the Keeping it Safe for Students or KISS campaign.“We're taught to drive but we aren't taught how to handle a traffic stop which I think is one of the best things we can learn at the beginning of our driving history so that we're used to it,” Carter said.Carter says traditional student driver training includes everything from alcohol safety to parallel parking, even distracted driving, but it doesn't include traffic stop training. Something she says is critical, especially for drivers of color.Data published in this July 2020 article by the Stanford Project cites 100 million traffic stops nationwide conducted by law enforcement and finds a number of disparities including Black and Hispanic drivers being pulled over more often than whites and police searching of those drivers higher than for that for white drivers.“I remember when I was in grand jury, I had officers tell me that if you were Black and had tinted windows and dreads that you were always going to be stopped in D.C., that's what they told me off the record so there you go, that's racial profiling,” Carter said.That is why Carter says she's making it her mission to get as many schools, police departments and communities to partner with the KISS campaign.The city of Fairfax, Virginia, a police union and school systems in Minnesota have signed on and she hopes to partner with Baltimore schools and beyond.“You know we have to train both sides, it's not just a training for law enforcement. It's a training for the community,” Carter said.

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