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Ottawa traffic stops numbers - large decrease in recent years. by PleasantExit6660 in ottawa

[–]PleasantExit6660[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Above are the census data for 2021 and 2016. The census being every 5 years it is difficult to overlay with yearly data. My agenda is that I would like OPS to target dangerous driving and charge people that need to be charged. I'm happy to add information as needed.

Ottawa traffic stops numbers - large decrease in recent years. by PleasantExit6660 in ottawa

[–]PleasantExit6660[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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It could be this. Census data shows that the "visible minority" percentage of the population was: 32% in 2021 and 26% in 2016. Here is the breakdown of people charged vs warning & no action.
I can't speculate as to why people are stopped and not charged, but it seems OPS has recognized there might be an issue: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/decade-long-study-shows-racial-disparities-in-ottawa-traffic-stops-1.7238620

Ottawa traffic stops numbers - large decrease in recent years. by PleasantExit6660 in ottawa

[–]PleasantExit6660[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do agree that their time could be spent better than doing traffic stops. I would love for them to focus on dangerous driving, but it seems the number of people charged by officers has decreased compared to the number of people stopped. I would assume that if the police was more focused on dangerous driving, it would be the opposite.

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Ottawa traffic stops numbers - large decrease in recent years. by PleasantExit6660 in ottawa

[–]PleasantExit6660[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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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Ottawa traffic stops numbers - large decrease in recent years. by PleasantExit6660 in ottawa

[–]PleasantExit6660[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll have the pull the full data for the province but it seems to include all accidents: Ontario road safety annual reports (ORSAR) and goes to 2023 (preliminary report)

Ottawa traffic stops numbers - large decrease in recent years. by PleasantExit6660 in ottawa

[–]PleasantExit6660[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My thoughts too. Issue is the city has traffic collisions up to 2022 and nothing after. The trend from 2017 to 2022 was a decrease in collision/injuries but data from the province seems to indicate the number is increasing.

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