Posted on 07/01/2020 3:34:35 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Anyone who gets pulled over in Virginia will now be subjected to a series of racial questions thanks to a new law called The Community Policing Act.
For years we have been told that asking about race is considered a microaggression — not exactly racist, but with racist undertones. Now police officers will be required to ask such questions each time they make a traffic stop in order to collect information to prove whether or not their department is racist.
WTOP reported that sheriffs, local police officers, and state police officers will now ask drivers about their race, ethnicity, and gender to compile data that will be used to determine if police departments disproportionately target certain groups.
The politician who sponsored the bill, Del. Luke Torian (D-Prince William County) told legislators while considering the bill that it would prohibit “law enforcement officers from engaging in bias-based profiling.”
“A similar law passed by the D.C. Council yielded data that led the ACLU of D.C. to issue a scathing report last month, claiming that Black people are disproportionately likely to be stopped in almost every police district in the nation’s capital,” WTOP reported. When black people were stopped by police, they were “more than six times as likely to undergo a pat-down or search of their person when compared to white people who were stopped,” the outlet reported on June 17.
In addition to asking information about drivers’ race, ethnicity, and gender, police officers will also have to record “the reason for the stop, the location, whether anyone was searched or arrested and whether a warning or citation was issued,” WTOP reported.
Police departments have already started issuing press releases in an attempt to warn drivers about the new questions. For example, Arlington, Virginia, released a statement on Tuesday explaining what would be asked during a traffic stop:
Members of the public should be aware of the new information collected, as it may involve the officer asking them additional questions on a traffic stop. On each stop conducted by a local law enforcement officer or State Police officer, the following information will be collected, based upon the officer’s observation or information provided to them by the driver:
Race, ethnicity, age and gender of the person stopped The reason for the stop The location of the stop Whether a verbal warning, written citation or summons was issued or whether any person was arrested If a verbal warning, written citation or summons was issued or an arrest was made, the violation or crime charged Whether the vehicle or any person was searched The data collected during traffic and investigatory stops will be reported to the Department of State and included in the Community Policing Reporting Database. Access to this database will be provided to the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) for the purpose of analyzing data to determine the existence and prevalence of the practice of bias-based policing and the prevalence of complaints alleging the use of excessive force. In addition to the reporting required by the Community Policing Act, the Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility will continue to conduct internal audits on all allegations of misconduct and fully review and investigate incidents involving use of force.
Talk about a step backwards
This is dumb
LOL. No LGBTQ woman of color can be arrested for any reason at any time. Expect an apology before your lawyer sets you up for a payoff.
When Starbucks had employees write Sharpie messages on patrons’ coffee cups “I want to talk with you about white racism” and “Let’s discuss race together” it flopped like a bass tossed into a rowboat.
This will lead to trouble and be heartening to the Alinsky-Soros-Squad types watching for police to mis-step.
If the police see a black person doing something illegal they will not stop them. Got they straight from someone in the profession.
A question this article did cover is ....
Do these shlubs plan to pull over Commericial vehicles, essential worker vehicles like the gas/ phone/ electric workers and commercial trucks hauling from one state to another for delivery ??
Maybe its just old retail policing on the lookout for politically incorrect drivers
what is these racists’ preferred race of the day?
I’ll declare myself that.
if a US Senator can lie about being an Injun Squaw, I can lie to get out of a parking ticket
(electing such immoral people only accelerates the moral and ethical degeneration of society as they are held up as our supposed “leadership” every day by the mass-hysteria media, and people naturally tend to emulate their “leaders”)
...”In spite of crime stats and who is committing crimes we either have to start arresting more whites or [fewer] blacks.” Unfortunately I believe you are right on the
money....LEOs will simply let more blacks “skate” so as
to skew the numbers...disgusting...yeah, being woke is
so much fun.........
Cincinnati has a “consent decree” from a prior riot and can’t ticket blacks until they write additional tickets for whites. There is a quota here.
And is it a sanctuary city,town,county or state there? Cannot ask if person is an illegal alien---and looks Latinx. Dial 1 for your lawyer.
Officer to Gov. Northam driving his sports car: Sir, are you....Oops, didn't get a good look at you at first, sir. The blackface was shining off the flashlight into my eyes. My apologies, sir.
People from New Jersey moved here and ruined it.
Don’t be white and drive through the ‘Queen City’
You will die a violent, premature death. Don’t you know that all black people who are pulled over by police are murdered in cold blood? That is what Black Lives Matters says and I believe them, shouldn’t I? They wouldn’t lie to me, would they?
Actual crime rates have nothing to do with it. The democrats want less black men in prison so their answer is ignore their crimes.
I’ll be an autistic Eskimo with PTSD from a walrus hunting expedition that went wrong.
We have moved on from actually having to be “trans black” while white. Haven’t you heard? Today, all you have to do is IDENTIFY as being black, and you are good to go.
lol
Electronic vote counting is grand. Should have to give a fingerprint.
Absolute insanity!
One wonders if these clowns have actually studied Interstate Commerce & Trade laws.
so here I sit wondering
I can’t wait until the ACLU is suing because illegal immigrants think the “ethnicity” question is a way to crack down on them.
Sing it Ladies.... doo daa
Hmmmm....no mention made of whether or not the ethnicity of the officer will be taken into account. I guess they’re all blue, for the purpose of this study.
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