The source material makes it sound like the traffic stops are like.... profiling people and wasting their time... The 79% on traffic stops is an officer acting

The source material makes it sound like the traffic stops are like.... profiling people and wasting their time... The 79% on traffic stops is an officer acting on what they classified to be a traffic violation -- it's not 79% of them are pretextual stops & warnings, and 11% are catching speeders/reckless drivers... it's 79% pulling over speeders/reckless/etc. drivers and 11% "reasonable suspicion of a crime that is not traffic related" If you think about it that way... People CONSANTLY violate traffic laws... So it's not terribly surprising. I certainly hope calls for help are promptly answered, but that source doesn't seem to include data other than the fact that responding to calls for help takes twice as long as a traffic stop for an officer's time. Edit: removed attribution to parent post