> The chart shows that the uptick begins in 2014 If we're guessing about correlations I'd point to something else that happened in 2014 that's much more signif

> The chart shows that the uptick begins in 2014 If we're guessing about correlations I'd point to something else that happened in 2014 that's much more significant and directly related: the death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, after which police who were roundly criticized for pulling over too many people committed to performing drastically fewer traffic stops. The second visible spike follows the death of George Floyd, which resulted in a redoubling of that commitment [0]. [0] See my other comment in this thread for some numbers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33769708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33769708