Posted on 08/11/2021 3:23:38 PM PDT by matt04
Connecticut's police accountability task force is proposing that police officers statewide be prohibited from stopping drivers for broken headlights and other minor violations.
The panel approved the recommendation Tuesday as data show Black and Hispanic motorists in the state are stopped at disproportionate rates for vehicle equipment and registration violations, compared with white drivers.
Task force members said they hope restricting stops for minor violations reduce that disparity and decreases confrontations where police use force.
The panel also is recommending to state lawmakers that police be barred from stopping drivers who display their license plates in their back windows and violate window tinting laws.
If you don’t want police to stop people for no headlights/taillights, expired reg, or other “minor” violations that can lead to very dangerous and real world consequences, repeal the laws.
If they went that route, however, it would get that much more public notice and lots more people asking uncomfortable questions of this group.
I am so sorry.
Blacks can’t get a photo ID
Blacks can’t read
Blacks can’t write
Blacks can’t obey traffic laws
Blacks can’t stop killing people
Blacks can’t stop robbing people
Blacks can’t pay for utilities
Blacks can’t pay rent
Blacks can’t vaccinate
Blacks can’t pass tests
Thank you MSM and the Democrat Party
Since when is a broken headlight a minor problem? A broken headlight can easily result in injury or death to another motorist or pedestrian.
Agreed. Far too many times, I’ve been driving at night or in poor weather and all of a sudden come up on a car with no lights or just DRLs on and have to quickly brake, lane change, etc. to avoid a collision.
In a highway that could easily be a fatality or a local road a pedestrian could easily be hit and killed.
And thank the 0regon governor who decided that HS grads don’t need to know reading, writing, or math.
With many of the late models you had also better carry your tool box and your favorite mechanic.
Changing a bulb is no longer something you do in the motel parking lot with nothing more than a screwdriver.
Actually you don’t change a bulb in my Ram tail light. You install a new tail light complete. I don’t recall the exact price, but something like $500.00.
Oh...and it takes a left and a right. They are not the same.
Designed by geniuses with zero common sense.
Still it is the best pickup I have ever owned and I have owned many.
It’s kind of ironic.
The people who are advocating “Defund The Police!” are too stupid to understand there is actually a really good way to do that, and it wouldn’t require any legislation.
If everybody in a given town or city or whatever didn’t speed, used their turn signals, stopped at stop signs, maintained their headlights, kept up on their registration and plates, in short straightened up and started to fly right, there would be a HUGE budget shortfall.
The reason why, cities have their budgeting and expenditures mapped out pretty well. In fact, so well they’ve already spent the money! They “know” to a pretty accurate degree just how much money will come in next year in traffic fines and moving violations, DUI, etc etc.
Everybody starts motoring like they are taking their Drivers Examination, and a whole bunch of places would be screeching like wounded eagles, I expect. They depend on that revenue.
For my part, I’ve discovered if I drive safely, use turn signals, keep my car maintained, don’t speed, stop at traffic lights, don’t drive drunk, keep it registered and insured, the cops completely leave me alone. It’s the damndest thing, I can’t figure out!
Wow - well it’s easy on my car, I’ve done it several times which always begs the question: why does the headlight behind the battery is the one that always goes out?
Let the CT. drivers live with the drunk and reckless drivers, nobody cares.
Then just take the laws off the books.
Often a cop will spot a “frequent law enforcement consumer”, and knowing he is probably up to no good will, by serendipity no doubt, spot a minor infraction. That is called community policing - keeping the bad guys on notice.
I have a liberal relative who says that she was stopped by the police because she looks Hispanic and was in a White neighborhood. She believes that cops use race and gender as the primary way to identify drivers to pull over.
I told her the next time you are driving try to identify the race/sex/age of the cars around you. Practically impossible to identify the occupants. Anyway, she uses her one episode as primary evidence that all cop are sleasy hateful racist. Defunding the police is the only solution in her mind.
“Saw a new expensive vehicle with an expired tag this week. Tag was 2 years expired”
How new could it be with a 2-year-expired tag ?
I;m willing to bet most stops for equipment violations are noticed from the rear of the vehicle, where beign able to see the driver, let alone the race is almost impossible.
I doubt a officer is gonna do a quick U-Turn in a street if thy see a car with a burnt out headlight alone.
This happened at least 20 years ago. Don’t know if local law did allow a percentage of tinted windows where we lived. Also, screaming racism would have just made things worse.
Once, long ago, I was driving in the small town I grew up in. Saw the cop sitting down the street and wasn’t doing anything so was surprised when he pulled me over. He said...you ran the stop sign back there where you turned. I said...there’s no stop sign there. He didn’t believe me so said...wait here, and got in his car and drove back to check. He came back and apologized and told me to have a good night. lol
It looks like that guy is going to jail for texting while behind the wheel and not wearing a seatbelt. If the keys are in the ignition they will nail his white ass to the wall.
You are correct (imho)
Actually tag was 2+ years expired. Vehicle was less than 2.
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