High School Senior Creates CopStop App to Help Youth with Police Encounters

By Imani Jackson

"CopStop isn’t just for me. It’s for the whole community,” 17-year-old George Hofstetter told The Root recently in a video segment. Hofstetter added that he wants his little brother “to grow up in a world where he doesn’t have to worry about being on the news as an African American child being slain.”

The Black teen transferred concerns about the high-stakes nature of police interaction with Black people, including himself, and concerns about his younger brother’s safety relative to police into his app CopStop.

To read more: http://blackyouthproject.com/george-hofstetter-high-school-senior-created-copstop-app-help-youth-police-encounters/