Eugenia Rho, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, believes that the first moments of a vehicle stop are crucial,
“Simply put, the officer starts off with a command rather than a reason in escalated stops.” Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the peer-reviewed research also found that Black men could often predict a stop’s outcome simply by listening to those same 45 words, which generally spanned less than 30 seconds.
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