A local activist group in Oakland is calling for a dramatic change. They want to take traffic enforcement away from police departments statewide.
“It’s critical,” said Cat Brooks, cofounder of Anti Police Terror Project (APTP). “It’s literally life and death.”
They took to the streets this weekend to protest the killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis during a traffic stop, and now, the group is calling for some dramatic changes at home.
“Traffic stops are one of the primary ways that Black and Brown folks get entangled in the legal system and once we are entangled it is very hard to get out,” said Brooks. “They are also often