re: Why Not Simply Ban Traffic Stops other than

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We're told the world wouldn't function without this labyrinthine system of exploitation that overwhelmingly targets poor black and Latino residents. Most of us can't even begin to imagine a world without it.

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Sorry your dumbass can’t follow the law.

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We need to remove the monetization of criminal behavior

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Yeap.

Good idea. Some clown is weaving all over the highway, then kills himself and a family of 4 because he's shitfaced drunk. Two weeks later his family gets a ticket in the mail for Failure to Maintain a Single Lane of Traffic. Sounds splendid.....unless that family of 4 was yours.

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so you want the wild wild west of roads then

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how the hell do you get that from my post

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Q. How do municipalities collect tax money from people who don't pay property taxes?

A. Speed trap low income, high traffic areas. Pull over every burned out taillight, lane switch without signalling, not waiting 2 seconds before turning on red, and rolling stop.

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This may work in your municipality, but I know the municipal judge in my town and about 80% of the court stories he tells me involve people not paying their fines.

He doesn't want to jail them because then not only does the city not get the fine, but it costs the taxpayers money to house them in jail.

What happens is they claim they can't pay the fine and he tells them, "No problem, I will let (whoever is in charge of the trash truck) know to expect you at 7 a.m. Saturday morning and the city will credit you $15 an hour towards your fine...we'll expect to see you every Saturday until it's paid off," and then they magically figure out a way to pay...but almost never all at once.

They pay $20 a month for a year and a half or something like that.

Which then creates that much more work for the city when they stop paying 3 months in and have to be dragged back into court to go through the same process all over again.

That's a very long way of saying it ain't the license to print money that you are portraying it to be.

Not with that particular demographic, anyway.

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Good idea. Some clown is weaving all over the highway, then kills himself and a family of 4 because he's shitfaced drunk

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i can only assume you didn't read past the title

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Eliminate fines.

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99% of small towns would fold up

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What’s wrong with a search and seizure based on no evidence with no judicial safeguards?

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Can you explain that? If someone is pulled over because they are weaving in traffic, and then the cop smells pot, he had probable cause to search the vehicle. That is a good thing. Can you tell me how that violates the law or is a "bad thing"?

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A. Speed trap low income, high traffic areas.

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I get it...traffic stops are racist.