Posted on 05/09/2026 7:10:15 PM PDT by Libloather
The Los Angeles City Council voted 14-0 to advance restrictions on police traffic stops rooted in one dangerous idea: That cops enforcing traffic laws are somehow the real threat on the streets of LA.
Not the drunk driver.
Not the gang member carrying an illegal gun.
Not the reckless driver blowing through intersections at 90 miles per hour.
The cops.
Only in LA could elected officials look at street disorder and decide the problem is still too much policing.
Read the motion that passed and the message is obvious: Los Angeles is now governed by people who start with suspicion of the LAPD.
Their presumption seems to be that officers are out there waiting to abuse motorists unless City Hall puts another leash on them.
The chief architect of this madness is City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who has spent years trying to move traffic enforcement away from police officers.
On his own official city website, Harris-Dawson says LA policing has relied on traffic stops “as a method to fish for potential criminal suspects.” He also declares that “it is unnecessary to have armed law enforcement stopping people for vehicle code violations.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Better would be to create legislation preventing insurers from usurious rate increases for minor infractions.
Certain infractions are worthy of increases like reckless driving, speeds 35 mph above the limit etc. or when the infractions reach nine points or above.
Good!
Going through School Zones will allow speeds of bats through Hell...
Dash cam, body cam backlash .... ‘didndunuffins’ doesn’t work when there’s video.
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