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 it is just a simple traffic stop for a headlight, etc. why would the police need to use force unless the occupants refuse to cooperate, i.e. had over paperwork, sit in car and wait for a warning or citation. They just admitted a certain demographic is prone to violence.
Could it be that white privilege folks take better care of their cars and check to see all lights are working? I use a store window at times to check my rear lights and backup lights to see if they’re all working.
Timothy McVeigh was just missing a license plate.
Saw a new expensive vehicle with an expired tag this week. Tag was 2 years expired
Minor infractions often lead to justified discovery of major infractions.
And equipment warnings are a good thing.
In my city, if you have a temporary tag, your chances of being pulled over is high.
I had a headlight out, so the cop made an illegal u-turn with sirens blazing, pulled me over.
I see them always rolling past stop signs, yet we get a ticket if we do it.
This morning, I did an illegal U-turn and Indud not know an officer was sitting at the red light and saw what I did.
The only that saved me, I think, was that he was near the end of his shift and probably didn’t want the extra half hour to deal with me.
Then REPEAL the laws!
The communists act like this is the police’ fault and that American Blacks are unfairly targeted but then want only racist enforcement of those laws against the targeted group du jour - when it’s the DEMOCRAT legislatures and leaders who wrote those laws and demand their enforcement and then won’t repeal them when they try to score political hate points.
This morning, I did an illegal U-turn and I did not know an officer was sitting at the red light and saw what I did.
The only that saved me, I think, was that he was near the end of his shift and probably didn’t want the extra half hour to deal with me.
Side note: After I stopped, I put my brights on so both headlights were on. The cop said he was sure I had one out. He apologized and left.
According to Thomas Aquinas, a law that can’t be enforced is no law at all. So what is the point of even having it on the books! If they don’t want the cops to enforce it, they should repeal the law. That’s what the phrase “the rule of law” means
Rather what I was thinking. If it’s not going to be enforced just drop it.
And sheer incompetence.
How to change that disparity: Get the minorities to obey the law! That would never occur to a liberal. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
They can always just issue more warnings but not stopping someone is crazy.
Make sure you're like this guy, or you're going to jail:
There is something like using common sense. My husband and I had a Dodge Caravan with tinted windows. It had successfully gone through inspection several times. Then one time the black inspector said we had to get rid of the tinted windows. I asked why, and he said they are used by criminals (almost all of whom in this city are black or brown) and there is a law. At this time I was around 60 and my husband around 70, and we were white. I pointed out that we had passed inspection before with no questions raised, and that we were living on Social Security and the hundreds of dollars to change the windows was something we could ill afford. We had to do it anyway!!! GRRRRRRR.
Then don’t create laws that are supposed to be enforced, in order to protect other drivers on the road. Stop requiring driver’s to be covered by insurance if you aren’t willing to enforce vehicular laws. And stop requiring people to pass a driver’s test in order to get a license, if you aren’t willing to enforce the laws they are supposed to know in order to get that license.
Right. Because that will never increase reckless driving, increase the number of accidents, and cause insurance rates to skyrocket.
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