Editing Traffic stop (section)

=== Federal government ===
[[File:On Patrol in Puerto Rico.jpg|thumb|A [[Puerto Rico National Guard]] soldier assisting the [[Puerto Rico Police]] with a traffic stop, 2010. The National Guard was deployed to assist police while new [[Police cadet|police recruits]] were being trained.]]
The United States federal government has long used local traffic enforcement as a tool to further its goals through providing funding and training. Historically, this goal has been [[War on drugs|drug interdiction]], but this has been expanded to include the [[War on Terror]].<ref>{{cite web |title=NCJRS Abstract - National Criminal Justice Reference Service |url=https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=268894 |access-date=2019-07-06 |publisher=Ncjrs.gov}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Rusillo |first=Tracy |title=HIGHWAY SECURITY: FILLING THE VOID |url=http://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a552296.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501232159/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a552296.pdf |archive-date=May 1, 2017 |access-date=2019-07-06 |website=www.dtic.mil}}</ref> Currently, the [[National Highway Traffic Safety Administration]] (NHTSA) in cooperation with two agencies in the [[United States Department of Justice]] (the [[Bureau of Justice Assistance]] and the [[National Institute of Justice]]) actively promote a program called Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) which provides training to local police forces to combine traffic enforcement with fighting crime.<ref>{{cite web |title=Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) &#124; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) |url=https://one.nhtsa.gov/Driving-Safety/Enforcement-&-Justice-Services/Data%E2%80%93Driven-Approaches-to-Crime-and-Traffic-Safety-(DDACTS) |access-date=2019-07-06 |publisher=One.nhtsa.gov}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) &#124; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) |url=https://www.nij.gov/topics/law-enforcement/operations/traffic/pages/ddacts.aspx |access-date=2019-07-06 |publisher=Nij.gov}}</ref> In the past, such approaches have been accused of promoting racial profiling.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kocieniewski |first=David |date=2000-11-29 |title=New Jersey Argues That the U.S. Wrote the Book on Race Profiling |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/nyregion/new-jersey-argues-that-the-us-wrote-the-book-on-race-profiling.html |access-date=30 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2010-02-02 |title=Driving While Black: Racial Profiling On Our Nation's Highways &#124; American Civil Liberties Union |url=https://www.aclu.org/report/driving-while-black-racial-profiling-our-nations-highways |access-date=2019-07-06 |publisher=Aclu.org}}</ref>

Federal grants to states often use the number of traffic tickets as a performance measure.<ref name="mcentire">{{Cite news |last1=McIntire |first1=Mike |last2=Keller |first2=Michael H. |date=2021-10-31 |title=The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-ticket-quotas-money-funding.html |access-date=2023-05-02 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>