i have my own way of stopping vehicles. i stop them based on very literal things 80% of the time (expired registration, insurance, njalo) because that’s my “colorblind” way of contacting people. then the other 20% of the time is if the car does something extremely suspicious and noticeable that i would believe someone without a police officer’s training would think was weird if tasked with the same mission i was. the point i’m trying to make is that i try to do my best to stay impartial, so that i’m not pulling a car over because it looks “sketchy” or because the person driving it looks “like a thug”. le nto, i’m pretty happy about how i’ve been doing my job, and praise god for that. i guess where i’m depressed though, is that i feel so small in this big issue. the more i debated, the more i listened to my black and arab friends tell me about their stories of sketchy searches and probable causes etc. the more i realized i had no idea how to help this problem.