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Subject C: Traffic Stops and how California is combatting racialized traffic stops
I read the linked article recently and it got me thinking about how we approach policing in traffic stops. To summarize the article, it is reporting a new law that limits police power to stop vehicles for expired registration or nonfunctioning headlights. According to the bill's author, this was written to reduce the racial bias in traffic stops, which is a great idea. However, I think this bill targets the wrong areas for improvement.
I personally disagree with because I believe cars should have extra burdens in exchange for operating such a deadly machine. That includes basic traffic stops for operating them in an unsafe manner, and as such I will mainly be focused on the headlight portion of the law. However, the people who I sided with in the article were GOP, who opposed it on a very different principle. They opposed the bill because of how traffic stops can be used as pretext to catch criminals, not because making people operate dangerous machinery safely was a priority.
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i love nimbys. block anything that improves qol because property values. recently nimbys tried to fight an in progress light rail extension due to crime concerns and now their entire city probably wont get a rail connection until they give up.
i live in a majority sfh zoned streetcar suburb, however the area is majority walkable and not too awful for biking as a confident adult because of the grid roads for the walkable portion.
however, we are surrounded on all sides outside of this pocket of grid streets by poorly zoned sfh dominated by no sidewalk cul de sacs and 4 lane stroads with painted door zone bike lanes. the most notable areas are anywhere particularly north (rich people so literally no sidewalk) and near freeway interchanges. our south freeway interchange is the worst of them because its very stroady and has an auto dealership next to it. the others dont even try to pretend theyre not highway interchanges.
my picture has been nuked, beehaw has 1486'd my stuffed animals
thumbs rule
who made this hell game and how do i become the girl on the right ??????
the reason we arent discussing it is from the article itself.
The latest version of the bill aims to address those concerns by requiring cities to destroy all photographic evidence “that does not contain evidence of a speeding violation ... within five business days.”
if companies/cities choose to violate this law, then we have easy recourse.
In California, Daylighting, Sidewalk Riding, and Free Youth Transit Pass Bills Pass Committee Votes
cal.streetsblog.org Daylighting, Sidewalk Riding, and Free Youth Transit Pass Bills Pass Committee Votes - Streetsblog California
Bill to require transportation planning to consider climate also passes; Bicycle Safety Stop bill withdrawn by its author
hoping all of these pass, especially the one related to transport and climate.
damn the right about to make two new parties frfr, are we sure they arent the left?
not pictured is the FFT of this diagram, where the engineers reside
i have good news because its not set at the speed limit but 11 over, so you only get the ticket for recklessly speeding. maybe the speed limits get lowered so people arent driving 55 next to sidewalks. is that really such a big deal?
why not? CA has struggled with record levels of traffic injury and death in recent years.
www.latimes.com Is this the year California OKs speed cameras?
Safety advocates and some state leaders have been down this road before but are hoping the third try will be the charm.
hoping this catches on, pretty please CA...
i like the fact that the money can only go into maintaining the speed cameras or into making the road safer. those are both things desperately needed, especially in LA.
It takes 2 pause cycles, that's essentially O(1) compared to a cache miss.
LA Regional Connector opens!
Huge game changer for LA! Now union station serves almost every line!
that's awesome!
unrelated but i think it's really funny that both cities skylines 2 and counter strike 2 are being talked about around the same time, thus both get CS2