A routine traffic stop in Rochester, NY, in June escalated when police pulled Marvin Taylor out of his car, first smashing his car window. Taylor, a Black man, had refused to get out of the car or roll down his window because one of the officers approaching him already had his gun drawn, the Democrat and Chronicle reports. Scarlet Neath, CPE’s Policy Director, was interviewed about findings regarding pretextual stops and how police officers approach them.
Scarlet Neath, policy director at the Center for Policing Equity, pointed to a 2023 study that found “in stops that end in force and other escalation, officers are more likely to begin with a command and less likely to explain the reason for a stop.”
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