re: Berkeley, CA moves to stop police from conducting traffic stops

Cartels are fully supporting this idea

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Furthermore, you can’t have a crime without a victim.

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Tell that to the 24 year old teachers that get busted with their 18 year old students

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What if the unarmed civilian city worker is a racist?

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If they are not when they clock in they sure as Hell will be by the time they complete their 1st interaction. After all, the 1st complaint out of every perp's mouth: "They're Racist!"

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Serious question, why are stop signs mandatory at all times? Who does it hurt if I yield when there is no other cars or foot traffic?

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By that logic, why even slow down? It’s not like anyone has ever overlooked a pedestrian or another car during a 0.1 second scan of an intersection.

The answer, of course, is that if all traffic signs become optional then the jackass running the stop sign doesn’t see the jackass coming around the curve going 70 in a 45.

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Unnecessary regulatory laws create more government authority, and more government authority is, generally, never a good thing.

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Traffic laws serve a legitimate public safety purpose. The problem isn’t the existence of stop signs. The problem is selective enforcement and manipulation of traffic laws to serve other purposes. Example: I would be willing to bet money that cops on DWI enforcement duty pull over vehicles for rolling stops and illegal right-on-red at a much higher rate than normal daytime traffic cops. They are using the traffic violation as a means to an end.

Similarly, I would be willing to bet that a large portion (if not the majority) of stops for rolling stop, right-on-red, and failure to signal are targeted. In other words, the driver is in the crosshairs before the violation even happens.

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Found the dumbass who doesn't read contracts they sign!

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This is my favorite argument to have: you have agreed to the state control of X by doing X.

Yes, I have. I paid for the drivers license and signed the agreement. I literally had no choice if I wanted to drive the car that I paid for on the roads that I paid for. And yes, I pay taxes too. Mainly because they send you to jail and take your shite if you don't. That doesn't mean that I don't hate taxes, do everything possible to avoid paying them, and vote for anyone that claims to lower them.

You can't have a crime without a victim. I'm not sure why this is hard to understand. Traffic violations are simply a tax and a tool for law enforcement to use to oppress. Let the car insurance people figure this out. Hell, Allstate's Drivewise is better at policing driver's actions on the roads than the actually police. Just like Uber and Lyft have done more to eliminate drunk driving than any DUI checkpoint ever has.

What a shithole.

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Berkeley Ca has more crazy per capita than anywhere on the planet

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Portland says fight me.