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sciencescience

(112 posts)
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 09:29 PM Apr 2021

Get police out of the business of traffic stops

By TJ Grayson and James Forman Jr.
March 16, 2021

"SNIP.....

Many of the deaths garnering media attention in recent years resulted from armed police officers enforcing traffic violations, even minor ones. A Minnesota police officer pulled over Philando Castile for a broken taillight, then fired seven shots at him. A Texas state trooper stopped Sandra Bland for not signaling when she changed lanes. Three days later, she was dead in a jail cell. According to a Washington Post database, about 11 percent of all fatal shootings by police in 2015 occurred during traffic stops; Black people accounted for a disproportionate share of those deaths.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/16/remove-police-traffic-stops/

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Get police out of the business of traffic stops (Original Post) sciencescience Apr 2021 OP
amen!! I have been thinking on these small crimes that end up deadly,, why don't the cops demigoddess Apr 2021 #1

demigoddess

(6,672 posts)
1. amen!! I have been thinking on these small crimes that end up deadly,, why don't the cops
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 10:08 PM
Apr 2021

just write down the license plate and send them a fine they can pay by mail or paypal or something like that??? Nobody killed and they still have the fine money coming in. Win-win.

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