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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...

A friend of mine is an editor for a rather crazed British motorcycle magazine. A common feature story in Kenny Pryde's Superbike magazine involves chronicling the curviest, most deserted backroads in all the United Kingdom for his magazine's adrenaline-addicted readers. The magazine earns a beloved place in the hearts of Britain's two-wheeled speed freaks by alerting them to places where they can potentially ride their high-performance motorcycles at velocities that would smoke a space shuttle on re-entry. Unfortunately for Kenny's readers, Great Britain has become overrun in recent years by a safety culture unlike anything we Americans could conjure up...