The Chicago Automotive Mentoring Group and its Good Stop Program A Safe Traffic Stop.
The Automotive Mentoring Group is extremely concerned about public safety as well as youth violence in the communities of Chicago. These communities that are affected by violence are crying out for solutions to the violence in Chicago Neighborhoods. They desperately seek answers to public safety. The Automotive Mentoring Group response to this outcry is that we have created a one of a kind public safety and violence prevention project that we have named “Good Stop.”
With this program the objective is to promote seminars to teach young men and women of color how to respond in their first vehicle traffic stop by law enforcement. With this program we will purchase an authentic 1967 Plymouth Belvidere Chicago patrol car that can be outfitted with the original patrol lights, sirens, and with the original Chicago Police Star on both doors to replicate the original look of a Chicago patrol car from the 1960s. This is in response to the Police Officer Ella French who was shot and killed in Englewood during a routine traffic stop.
The purpose of this program is to teach fatherless boys and girls of color how to react and perform in their first traffic stop by law enforcement. We will be doing a mockup traffic stop in a variety of venues throughout the Chicagoland area. There will be 10 points to explain and teach them in detail what to expect from law enforcement during these the traffic stops.
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We have four mentors who are retired law enforcement officers and will serve as instructors in these traffic stops. These traffic stops will be done in controlled environments through out city in collaboration with the Chicago Police Department. Our aim is not only to educate the citizens to stay calm and collected in these stressful situations, but also to minimize the anxiety that they might experience.
Also, we want to minimize the danger for the police officer who is initiating the traffic stop. We want to stress the importance that when the traffic stop is completed, we want to make sure that the person makes it home safely. Just as important, we want them to understand the police officer wants to make it home too because they are a person who has a wife or husband and kids. Chicago Police Officer Ella French did not make it home that night.
This is imperative to create a better relationship between citizens and the police who tirelessly submit their lives every day to ensure our public safety. This program is imperative and something that we must do. We must invest in our young and teach them to be good neighbors.
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