Stop The Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets (STRESS) was a

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unit that operated from 1971 until 1974.Deadlinedetroit
(retrieved 30 November 2018) STRESS was created to reduce crime in

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. It used

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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.

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