Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets

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.

It used decoy units, targeting African-American men.

[2] It led to the deaths of twenty-four men, twenty-two of them African-American, over the course of three and a half years.

[2] This article related to Detroit is a stub.