Posted on 08/26/2024 3:47:26 PM PDT by CFW
Criminals opened fire on at least 134 police officers during routine traffic stops from 2021 through 2023, federal data show. Now, an equity commission convened by the Biden-Harris administration wants to spend $20 million on a pilot program that would deploy unarmed cops to conduct traffic enforcement.
The Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity, an Obama-era body revived by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg last year, said in a report released this month that cops don’t need to carry guns or tasers with them when out on the streets enforcing traffic laws. The commission, whose membership includes an activist who once said cars perpetuate "systemic racism," urged the federal government to spend $20 million developing a pilot program to "test the use of non-lethal, perhaps non-police traffic enforcement."
"Citing a driver for having a broken taillight, forgetting to use a turn signal, or even failing to stop at a stop sign, does not require the use of a gun, taser, or similar tool," the commission said.
The data suggest otherwise. In fact, traffic stops are one of the most dangerous aspects of a police officer’s job, according to Justice Department statistics.
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The Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity did not mention the inherent danger posed to police officers during traffic stops in its report. Instead, the commission highlighted a 2021 New York Times report that found police officers killed over 400 individuals during a five-year period. The Times report noted most of those killings were found to be legally justifie
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The solution would be to stop hiring police officers on DEI metrics and start hiring officers who are familiar with the Constitution and do not have a gang-member attitude. Jailing criminals with pages-long rap sheets so that officers are not putting their lives on the line with each traffic stop would help as well.
So drivers can start taking the “Rules of the Road” as “Suggestions of the Road”?
/sarcasm...just in case
The stupidity of these A-holes is breathtaking. They should be placed in padded rooms and given nothing sharper than a spork.
CC
What if the cop stops someone for a traffic violation who happens to be a violent criminal ‘on the lam’?
This woman’s idiocy amazes anew every day.
A perfect place to start using social workers.
Given the number of criminals with long rap sheets, that the Soros prosecutors and judges keep letting go free with no bail and no punishment, it’s now more dangerous than ever for officers to initiate a traffic stop.
I didn’t know there were police only for traffic stops. That would make them useless to be sent for an armed robbery or murder. Besides which, what if the person being stopped is wanted, etc. Police shouldn’t be trigger happy, but that doesn’t seem like a good solution. These people are nuts, like the other poster implied.
Literally trying to kill cops.
This is so stupid.
Yup, I’ve seen it too.
The people who come up with these ideas are a big part of the problem.
“Citing a driver for having a broken taillight, forgetting to use a turn signal, or even failing to stop at a stop sign, does not require the use of a gun, taser, or similar tool,” the commission said
Defective people often drive defective cars.
It is not the good citizens that are worried about being told their head light is out.
90 plus percent are glad to be told so they know to fix it.
Oh, no. Hire ONLY DEI traffic popos and let them know they will be unarmed.
Just for the year 2022:
Traffic stop
Officer shot 48
officer survived 40
officer killed 8
https://cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/Blue-alert/2022_Blue_Alert_Officers_Shot_Year_End_Report.pdf
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A couple from the many stories....
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Michigan MLive
Deputy fatally shot during traffic stop identified as Iraq War veteran, father of 5.
Jun. 28, 2024, 11:23 p.m.
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July 22, 2024 Inside Edition and video on YouTube.
Two officers from the Los Angeles Police Department were shot at with a fully automatic weapon. Dash cam and body camera video shows officers attempting a traffic stop on July 3. Cops say it was at about 9 p.m. when they pulled the car over. That’s when gunshots from what authorities later determined was a fully automatic AR-15-style rifle rang out. One officer sustained graze wounds to the head and both sustained cuts and scratches from glass fragments from the windshield.
Try looking up James R. Duncan on YOUTUBE and look at some of his videos. Amazing, just amazing. These people one day will be in charge of this country.
Gun bans starting with traffic cops, then private security, then police officers, Sheriffs, THEN THE REAL GOAL OF DISARMING PRIVATE CITIZENS....
Beware the DOORS THE DEMONRATS OPEN, because they never stop at the first bite.
“if the police don’t have guns then there will be less violent crime because crime and guns cause violent crime because of the criminals and guns and the police having guns cause more criminals to have guns because the police have guns too so if less police had guns then less criminals will have guns”. “word salad” harris can explain anything in her own inimitable way.
I respectfully disagree. I think they should be given machetes and butcher knives.
“Beware the DOORS THE DEMONRATS OPEN, because they never stop at the first bite.”
Bingo!
Give the left an inch and they will destroy a country.
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