Creating Traffic Safety

Localities should pursue policies that improve traffic safety while decreasing the role of armed police officers in enforcing traffic violations. This policy memo outlines the shortcomings of current traffic safety approaches and highlights localities that have successfully improved public transportation, decreased law enforcement presence, and expanded pedestrian accessibility. It recommends reducing police involvement in low-level traffic offenses, establishing unarmed, civilian traffic safety programs, improving public infrastructure, and reducing reliance on surveillance-based traffic enforcement.