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To: nickcarraway

So, no more traffic stops for suspected Negroes. If the stopped driver says he identifies as a Negro then let him go on his way with effuse apologies Then prepare for the lawsuit and loss of job.


7 posted on 06/18/2022 2:48:18 PM PDT by arthurus (| covfefe o)
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To: arthurus

I was self identifying as a little green alien but may reconsider the green part.


11 posted on 06/18/2022 2:52:26 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: arthurus
Traffic stops only happen if you feel like it in Washington since last year.

Report: Washington police say drivers are not stopping for them

https://www.q13fox.com/news/report-washington-police-say-drivers-arent-stopping-for-them.amp

In Lakewood, another small city in Pierce County, Chief Mike Zaro said drivers are refusing to stop for his officers on average once a day.

"A lot of times they’re stolen cars; sometimes we don’t know what the deal is," Zaro said.

Steve Strachan, the executive director of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, and others in law enforcement connect the increase in failures-to-yield to passage last year of House Bill 1054, a sweeping police tactics law that, among other things, barred high-speed pursuits except in very limited circumstances.

The law was part of a package of police reforms majority Democrats passed in response to the murder by police of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other high-profile police killings — reforms aimed at addressing racial disproportionality in policing.

Minority Republicans in the Legislature criticized many of the changes, including the pursuit law, and said they jeopardized public safety.

Strachan said he doesn’t dispute the need for statewide rules governing police pursuits, but thinks the new law went too far.

Under the new law, police officers can’t give chase unless there’s reasonable suspicion to believe the driver is impaired or the higher standard of probable cause to believe they’re an escaped felon or have committed a violent crime or a sex crime.

Even then there are restrictions on when officers can pursue. Officers must balance whether the person poses an "imminent threat" and whether the safety risks of the person getting away outweigh the danger of engaging in a high-speed chase.

24 posted on 06/18/2022 3:16:58 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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