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!
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.
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.
“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....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efgLHgsBmM
Translation: only white people will be stopped.