Posted on 07/16/2020 3:53:06 PM PDT by Libloather
After hours of emotional public testimony and a middle-of-the-night vote by Berkeley leaders, the progressive California city is moving forward with a novel proposal to replace police with unarmed civilians during traffic stops in a bid to curtail racial profiling.
The City Council early Wednesday approved a police reform proposal that calls for a public committee to hash out details of a new Berkeley Police Department that would not respond to calls involving people experiencing homelessness or mental illness. The committee also would pursue creating a separate department to handle transportation planning and enforcing parking and traffic laws.
The council voted for the committee to find ways to eventually cut the Police Department's budget by half and approved an analysis of police calls and spending.
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There may be situations where police do need to intervene, and so we need to look at all that," he said. We need to look at if we do move traffic enforcement out of the Police Department, what does that relationship look like and how will police officers work in coordination with unarmed traffic enforcement personnel?"
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What all of this is coming down to is that if cops with gun are not there to stop the bad guys with guns then the American Citizens with guns will have to stop the bad guys.
This is fine with me but is going to be very hard on the bad guys.
I guess the left wants us to play good guys with guns and indians...
Maybe the left should check with the indians and see how all that worked out for them?
Rioters and looters used to be shot on site and it did not make any difference at all if they were male or female or black or white.
That is a part of our history we need to reclaim instantly.
“Instead of Live PD, its Live Social Worker.”
LOL, that’s funny ... pathetic, but funny. One minor correction. That’s Dead Social Worker.
“novel proposal to replace police with unarmed civilians during traffic stops”
i can hardly wait to see how that’s going to work out ...
I'd demand a huge pay raise....
this is what we are dealing with...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efgLHgsBmM
Restorative Justice (RJ) is what they call it in K-12 public school curriculum, today. Not “conflict resolution” any more.
Yep - they ignore the cops shot/killed during “routine” traffic stops...
Translation: only white people will be stopped.
I believe you are correct sir. I dont think they will get past day one, without blood 🩸 spilled on the street.
While I dont wish to see anyone get killed over this, its hard to feel sorry for idiots.
Its more likely to be called the Dead Unarmed Civilian Traffic Pattol.
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