There is no acceptable reason whatsoever why police need to pull over drivers for insignificant fineable offenses.
Let’s be as blunt as we can be:
We have allowed traffic policing to become an end-around on the Constitution. The entire racket is an extended illegal search.
Let’s be as blunt as we can be:
We have allowed traffic policing to become an end-around on the Constitution. The entire racket is an extended illegal search.
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1474103783416291335
Seriously, even police officers, speaking candidly, will acknowledge that they use pretextual stops to initiate what would be illegal searches otherwise.
I have had police draw down on me and stick guns in my face once in my life…
…for accidentally flashing my high beams.
I have had police draw down on me and stick guns in my face once in my life…
…for accidentally flashing my high beams.
Traffic policing is the most prevalent form of corrupt law enforcement in the country.
It allows officers to drum up unimportant, largely irrelevant reasons to detain drivers who are disproportionately Black and Latino.
It is a money-grab for municipalities.
It’s a shakedown.
It allows officers to drum up unimportant, largely irrelevant reasons to detain drivers who are disproportionately Black and Latino.
It is a money-grab for municipalities.
It’s a shakedown.
It’s Christmas Eve Eve and I’m not going to spend it going off on this… but…
As I have said five million times, if you ever want to see just how unjust our “justice system” is - by design - go spend a day in municipal court in an socioeconomically mixed area.
As I have said five million times, if you ever want to see just how unjust our “justice system” is - by design - go spend a day in municipal court in an socioeconomically mixed area.
What you will see is well-off white defendants pleading citations down in exchange for a cash payment while less affluent defendants get saddled with debt and surcharges and impoundments and losses of license.
Every single motor vehicle fine is regressive. Remember that.
Every single motor vehicle fine is regressive. Remember that.
An $100 fine for someone making $150k is not the same as an $100 fine for someone making $12 an hour *gross*.
If you wanted to minimize citizen-cop interactions that go bad - like the one that led to the death of Daunte Wright - reform traffic policing.
If you wanted to minimize citizen-cop interactions that go bad - like the one that led to the death of Daunte Wright - reform traffic policing.
We have allowed policing in this country to become this ludicrous facade where “traffic violations” are acceptable Trojan horses for racial profiling, over-policing, and “justified” arrests and violence.
It’s a disgrace.
Merry Christmas.
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It’s a disgrace.
Merry Christmas.
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Case in point.
https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1474123427761975316
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