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Posted on 06/27/2002 12:17:10 PM PDT by chance33_98
Providence police again ordered to comply with traffic reporting law
By Eyewitness News
Jun 22, 2002, 7:14pm
PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) - City police are still not complying with a state law requiring it to report all traffic stops, according to a Superior Court judge. ``I'm very frustrated,'' said Judge Joseph F. Rodgers Jr., who six months ago ordered the department to take steps toward compliance. ``None of us, particularly the citizens of Providence, can be guaranteed that the City of Providence is complying with the state statute.'' City officials told The Providence Journal they intend to follow the law, and are close to doing so, if they aren't in compliance already.
The law is part of a statewide study to see if police departments participate in racial profiling. It requires police to collect data for all routine traffic stops, including the race, ethnicity and age of the driver, the reason for the stop, the basis for any searches or arrests, and any items seized.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Attorney General's Office sued the Providence Police Department for allegedly underreporting its stops.
Rodgers said the department must be in compliance by August, or he will refer the case back to Judge Stephen Fortunato Jr., for whatever action Fortunato deems appropriate.
Rodgers also imposed a new requirement. He said each time a Providence officer stops a car, he or she must radio the identification number of a racial-profiling card to the dispatcher.
That's intended to confirm that a racial-profiling card is really being filled out with each traffic stop.
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When the Supreme court made a decision that Thomas Jefferson did not like, Jefferson said, "The court has made its ruling. Now lets see if it can enforce it." Since jefferson commanded the Federal Marshals, there was not much the court could do.
When the cops won't take orders from the government, and the military will not take orders from the government, a government ceases to exist. Gorby of the former Soviet Union can tell the judge how that works.
When the city of Houston started profiling the traffic stops of Houston cops like this, the cops just stopped pulling people over and writing tickets. If they pulled noone over and gave noone tickets, they could not possibly be accused of racial profiling.
Damn near bankrupted the city, but "Out-of-Town" Brown never backed down.
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