In the past year, researchers from the University of Michigan and various peer institutions have added to the volume of research in understanding the disparate racial impact of traffic stops, and how they can become violent or fatal.
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Michigan community members perform minor car repairs, help minorities avoid police interactions
The group is called Southeast Michigan Pull Over Prevention, and behind the effort are community members on a mission to pump the brakes when it comes to unnecessary police interactions.
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(WXYZ) â The group is called Southeast Michigan Pull Over Prevention, and behind the effort are community members on a mission to pump the brakes when it comes to unnecessary police interactions. What we are doing is minimizing or hopefully eliminating police encounters, unnecessary ones, by performing simple repairs to people s cars . headlights, brake lights, tail lights, stuff that the motor vehicle code allows the police to pull people over for, but which may be cost prohibitive to to people, said Shane Mall, Pull Over Prevention volunteer.