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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Btw if they were too understaffed to go back to normal levels of traffic stops, they'd cite that as the reason. But instead they cite the "rhetoric". Basically, don't you dare criticize police, or we'll stop working.[/quote]

As I understood it, police officers hate doing traffic enforcement stops anyway. I mean, stops for the primary purpose of traffic enforcement (you're speeding, you didn't stop at the stop sign, you went through a red light, you didn't stop for the person in the crosswalk), not pretextual stops (I want to search your car so I will pull you over for not turning on your blinker). So it seems like automated enforcement (red light cameras, speed cameras, stop sign cameras) would be a win for everyone.[/quote]

You're changing the subject. I am not against automated enforcement but it can't completely replace enforcement by police (as they said during the session if you bothered to watch).

If I stopped doing the things I don't like about my job, I'd get fired.[/quote]

I'm the PP you're responding to, and I'm not the defender of police on this thread. Yes, automated enforcement can't completely replace enforcement by police, but it could do a lot more to make all of us safer on the roads, including police officers, even compared to former days when police officers were doing a lot more traffic-enforcement stops. The current situation is that there is very little traffic enforcement of any sort, which is bad, but the solution is not to go back to police officers pulling drivers over more.[/quote]

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