title: Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets
text: # 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.
  
  STRESS was created to reduce crime in Detroit. It used decoy units, targeting African-American men. It led to the deaths of twenty-four men, twenty-two of them African-American, over the course of three and a half years.
  
  