Posted on 07/16/2020 3:53:06 PM PDT by Libloather
“”””Cops catch a lot of crooks on traffic stops. That may be the point.””””””””””
Quite true.
What’s so “Progressive” about a movement that is based on a book that was written almost 200 years ago?
There will be Dancing in the streets when they’re not trying to avoid being run over by Drunk Drivers
“...Leftist stupidity has no bounds....”
Without a doubt.
It’s a chronic no-cure mental disease.
Years ago, they put people suffering like this in state mental wards to protect the public, and really, to protect them from themselves. They tried everything to cure it: lobotomies, shock therapies, etc. Nothing worked. Somewhere along the line, somebody decided to let em out. Then, they bred with each other to become today’s RAT party. They’re utter morons.
They need to be placed back into those mental institutions. They are getting good people killed with all their lunatic BS.
I can’t wait until they send conflict resolution workers to domestic violence calls.
btt
The list of cities and states that I’ll avoid at all costs grows exponentially.
“...a novel proposal to replace police with unarmed civilians during traffic stops ...”
That used to work in England but not so much anymore. How many of them get shot before nobody wants the job?
“...replace police with unarmed civilians during traffic stops...”
This’ll go over like a fart in church.
“replace police with unarmed civilians during traffic stops in a bid to curtail racial profiling.”
You will still have racial profiling, just twisted around. Hey I’m not gonna stop them, they look dangerous.
Demolition Derby - Berkely style!
A spiffy new uniform, ID, cap, a badge and a clipboard... think of the TSA. Millions will volunteer!
“And how many suicidal civilians do they plan on getting to do this job?”
Hopefully all democrats.
I’m eager to see the new A&E show “Live Unarmed Civilian Traffic Patrol”
And how many dead unarmed social worker traffic cop deaths will it take to make the Berkeley folks realize that it was not a good idea? It will be a case of the criminal’s pistol being mightier than the social worker’s pen.
I think that soon we will see the end of police using their ‘intuition’ to use minor infractions as an excuse to stop and search people. Deciding what vehicle to investigate and *then* finding a reason to stop is going to be considered ‘harassment’ by definition.
For a long time it’s been that if a cop wanted to pull over a car because they don’t like the looks of the people driving it, or ‘felt something is off’, they would use an infraction that they would otherwise ignore to pull the person over. I don’t think that’s going to fly anymore, particularly if it can be proven that they do such to a greater proportion of Blacks or other POC.
If you wouldn’t pull over a white guy, in a suit, driving a nice car for the infraction, pulling over a black or Mexican person driving a beater or w lo rider for the same thing is going to be really problematic and ‘racist’ by definition going forward.
Finding a pretext to stop a vehicle instead of strictly applying a uniform criteria (for either driving or mechanical issues) is going to be a thing of the past.
“Profiling” is going to go away, probably sooner than later.
Well, we’ll get to see how this little experiment works out.
ah the yutes
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