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Berkeley votes to end police stops for minor traffic violations
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Feb. 24, 2021 | Jill Cowan

Posted on 02/24/2021 11:53:18 AM PST by artichokegrower

After Californians poured into the streets of cities across the state to protest police brutality and racism last summer, elected leaders pledged to implement reforms.

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In July, as my colleague Kellen Browning reported, Berkeley became what was believed to be the first U.S. city to plan to prohibit police officers from conducting traffic stops


Awesome! Street racing in Berkeley this Saturday night.

1 posted on 02/24/2021 11:53:18 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower
Sure, what not?

Don't enforce the big laws, why bother with the small ones?

2 posted on 02/24/2021 11:57:04 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: artichokegrower

Just like Mexico City. Playing Chicken, full-speed ahead into an intersection. Every car in that place is dented or worse.


3 posted on 02/24/2021 11:58:08 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: artichokegrower

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4 posted on 02/24/2021 12:05:37 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: artichokegrower

The reforms require city officials to implement a ban on stopping drivers for offenses that aren’t safety related, such as for broken taillights or even rolling through a stop sign if no one’s around, and would stop police officers from asking about parole and probation status in most circumstances.

LOL!

Crime will explode


5 posted on 02/24/2021 12:06:08 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Jim W N

I lived in Sao Paolo Brazil for a year in the mid 90s

I see most American cities heading towards that model. In fact, American society and economics in general will be moving towards a South American model.


6 posted on 02/24/2021 12:08:17 PM PST by PGR88
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Crime will explode

That's the plan.

Unless you are a "right-winger"?

In which case you will be cited for jaywalking.

7 posted on 02/24/2021 12:08:28 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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“After Californians poured into the streets of cities across the state to protest police brutality and racism last summer,...”

The Big Lie. No more than a few hundred antifa/blm rioters. All were paid for by the DemonRATs. Then also some more who were only opportunistic looters.

The media spins it into some sort of groundswell of public opposition to the police.

All lies by evil paid media prostitutes and followers of the Arch-criminals Soros and Pelousi.


8 posted on 02/24/2021 12:10:51 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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From the SF Koranicle article:
offenses that aren’t safety related, such as for broken taillights

Well, if they aren't "safety related" -- if their inoperation poses no threat to other drivers then tailights really serve no useful purpose. I say get rid of them and fill the holes in with pictures of unicorns and butterflies.

Ig-Mos (ignorant morons) one and all.

9 posted on 02/24/2021 12:12:28 PM PST by glennaro (Tyranny can only be defeated by force ... physical force. It doesn't just "go away" by itself!)
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To: Jim W N

I drove in Mexico City once in my invulnerable youth. Quite the experience and not for the faint of heart. I remember one guy going the wrong way on a street and everyone honking at him and shaking their fists. Then I saw the Dirrecion arrow—he was the only one going the right way.


10 posted on 02/24/2021 12:14:45 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Vendome

This is fine with me. I say why stop here?

1. Parking tickets Out
2. Running a red light Out
3. Speeding over 20 MPH Out
4. Honk at a pedestrian Out
5. Texting while driving Out
6. Running stop sign Out
7. Turning right on “No turn on red” Out
8. Honk at cyclist Out
9. Drag racing Out
10. More than 10 Mexicans in car Out


11 posted on 02/24/2021 12:14:57 PM PST by nikos1121 ( )
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Well, if they aren't "safety related" -- if their inoperation poses no threat to other drivers then tailights really serve no useful purpose.

Why not stop enforcing the seat belt law? I'd rather that, than not enforcing rolling through stop signs.

12 posted on 02/24/2021 12:18:13 PM PST by roadcat
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Actually, it would be great if it was only regarding “minor” infractions. My son was driving my daughter’s Dodge Omni and was pulled over for the license plate light being out. It had been out for years and nobody else got pulled over. But in his beard and scull cap, he gets pulled over.

And then there are the cops that break your tail light as they walk up to your door and use it as the excuse for pulling you over.


13 posted on 02/24/2021 12:18:53 PM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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Unless you are a "right-winger"? In which case you will be cited for jaywalking.

They won't time to go after right-wingers for small violations, anyway. All police forces will be consumed investigating Right Wing Terrorist Cells.

14 posted on 02/24/2021 12:19:54 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Life is short, and work long, opportunity fleeting, experiments dangerous, and judgment hard)
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We know why. Because “minorities” (privileged victim group members) are stopped more than those evil “oppressors.” Can’t have that! Better to let criminals go scot free than have disproportionate numbers!


15 posted on 02/24/2021 12:19:56 PM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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This is fine with me. I say why stop here?

11. Loud boom box stereos in cars, that shake surrounding cars, out. Doesn't everyone love the noise?

16 posted on 02/24/2021 12:22:39 PM PST by roadcat
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To: artichokegrower

What could possibly go wrong? These lefties have lost their minds.


17 posted on 02/24/2021 12:23:30 PM PST by sacjones
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Californians should get rid of all police and build a wall between themselves and the USA.


18 posted on 02/24/2021 12:29:01 PM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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how about all the Berkeleyites who shoot up heroin, sheit on the streets, and accost innocent pedestrians, sometimes in gangs of 5 or 6, to shake them down for money?


19 posted on 02/24/2021 12:30:37 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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The secret word/ruling in the counties north/east of Gay Frisco is “Don’t stop people for any traffic violation!”

Our few vehicle trips have been to get our covid vaccines, my wife needed minor laser eye surgery (outpatient) and to get our weekly groceries.

Basically every traffic light is being run by several seconds after it turns red. Stopping and making a right turn is now slowing down to the speed limit and going through the red light to make a right turn.

Relatives in the East Bay are seeing the same B$. If you do the speed limit, other drivers become like rear bumper stickers.

Friends visited their family in Sacramento and said that it was like being in unofficial drag races on all the roads.


20 posted on 02/24/2021 12:32:30 PM PST by Grampa Dave (History, as we know it, is written by the winners not losers! Who is rewriting our history, now????)
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