Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets
Detroit Police Department unit
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Stop The Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets (STRESS) was a Detroit Police Department unit that operated from 1971 until 1974.[1]
STRESS was created to reduce crime in Detroit by surveilling and catching criminals in the act[2]. It used decoy units, targeting African-American men.[3] It led to the deaths of twenty-four men, twenty-two of them African-American, over the course of three and a half years.[3]
A 1973 poll found that 65 percent of black Detroiters disapproved and 78 percent of white Detroiters approved of STRESS.[4]
