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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How exactly does preventing cops from pulling people over who don't have functional cars address racial disparities?

It makes it more likely to encourage everyone not to maintain their vehicles because laws won't be enforced. It will damage the environment because no one has to get their tags updated that would require up to date emissions and maintenance of your car. So much more hazardous for pedestrians and other drivers when you can driver around now with no functional headlights or tail lights.

As usual, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. No one these days is capable do thinking in complex nuanced terms, but only in binary.  Everything is good or bad with no room for nuance. Maybe racial disparities in traffic stops are bad, but that doesn't mean all traffic stops are bad and banning cops from pulling over cars that don't have headlights seems like a really asinine idea that does nothing to address racial disparities.   Of course using more than two brain cells to come up with more targeted policy to reduce racial disparities in traffic stops would be far too much to ask of this council.[/quote]

I feel he’s gone a step too far this time. This bill simply doesn’t make sense, and it seems to contradict county efforts to improve road and pedestrian safety. There’s simply no logic behind this one. None.

I can’t imagine it will pass. In the bizarre chance it does, I give it a short time before it is reversed. It reminds me of his call to remove SROs, just to see them reinstated a short time later.[/quote]

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