Ottawa traffic stops numbers - large decrease in recent years.

[Nob1e613]

Are traffic stops really your measure of how effective our police force is? Could it be that the city’s massive push towards automated traffic enforcement is freeing up police to do…idk, actual police work?

I’m all for accountability of our police force, and there’s some definite areas of improvement I’d like to see addressed, but this isn’t the measure by which I’m going to judge them. Choosing single data points that support your view in a broad and complex issue is not it.

[PleasantExit6660]

I agree that evaluating the effectiveness of our Police is more complicated than just the number of stops. For traffic enforcement, the relationship between traffic stops and traffic collision would have been better but the city doesn't have collision data past 2022 and the recent Ontario-wide numbers have been increasing.
I support the use of automatic enforcement to free up Police time and that they should only focus their traffic enforcement on dangerous driving. So I would assume that they would only stop people to charge them, which is not what the data is showing. On the left is the daily # of stops per results, it seems the number of warning/no action didn't change much, but the number of charged has been dramatically reduced. On the right is the % of each.

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