Traffic stop policy in Ramsey County, MN

Acknowledgements

We are grateful for our partnership with the Ramsey County Attorney's Office and the opportunity to assess the impact of their collaboration with law enforcement officials to reduce minor, non-public-safety traffic stops and searches. We also thank the Ramsey County Emergency Communications Center and Saint Paul Police Department for providing the data and discussions that made this work possible.

We are also appreciative of Felix Owusu, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, for contributing code and thoughtful discussion to the analysis, and Kevin Wilson, for reviewing our work.

This report was made possible through the generous financial support of the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Stand Together Trust, The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, Microsoft, and JIL@GW.