That’s about six a month or more than one a week. And what we got was about 400 drivers or passengers over that five-year period who were killed at vehicle stops.
We wanted to isolate just the killings at vehicle stops that seemed the most questionable, the most potentially avoidable. And also, we tossed out everybody who was being pursued for a violent crime, so no bank robbers, no murderers on the run. From there, we collected all the news reports and court records and whenever possible, audio and video recordings of these killings that we could.Īnd we tried to isolate the people who were killed at vehicle stops, the people who were unarmed, not carrying a gun or a knife, not threatening the police with a weapon. We got that from data put together already by the Washington Post and two research organizations mapping police violence and fatal encounters. Well, my colleagues in investigation - Steve Eder and Kim Barker and I - began with a list of 5,000 people killed by police over the last five years. So what did you do to answer those questions? What did you do first? david kirkpatrick
So we wanted to know, is this happening as often as it seems, unarmed drivers getting killed at vehicle stops? And if it is happening a lot, why? sabrina tavernise There was an army lieutenant, Caron Nazario, who was pulled over and pepper sprayed in Virginia. There had been a number of other instances of unarmed drivers, mostly African-Americans, killed by police at vehicle stops, including Daunte Wright in Minnesota. Well, it started right after the conviction of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who had pulled George Floyd out of the driver’s seat of a car and then killed him on the sidewalk. I spoke to my colleague, David Kirkpatrick, about why so many traffic stops go wrong and why the problem is so hard to fix.ĭavid, where did you start this investigation? david kirkpatrick Today: A Times investigation shows that police killed 400 unarmed drivers or passengers during traffic stops over the last five years. Monday, November 1st, 2021 sabrina taverniseįrom The New York Times, I’m Sabrina Tavernise. Transcript Why Do So Many Traffic Stops Go Wrong? A Times investigation showed that hundreds of unarmed drivers and passengers died at the hands of the police in recent years.
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