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\nCity of Berkeley<\/p>\n
\nCity of Berkeley<\/p>\n
Berkeley, of course. This should end well. Mason sends.<\/p>\n
By Kate Larsen<\/strong><\/p>\n BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) — In the East Bay, in what’s believed to be a first in the nation proposal, the City of Berkeley has proposed ending police traffic enforcement.<\/p>\n Next week, Berkeley’s City Council will vote on a proposal to create a Department of Transportation and use employees in that department to make traffic stops instead of Berkeley Police officers.<\/p>\n “Most traffic stops don’t really warrant a police officer,” said Darrel Owens, the co-executive of East Bay for Everyone, a housing and traffic non-profit. He helped pitch the new, one-year plan to Berkeley City Council. He says ideally the city would take money away from Berkeley PD to fund the new department.<\/p>\n “A minor traffic violation should not have resulted in the murder of a black or brown body, but at the same time we can also re-examine the nature of punitive law enforcement and broken windows policing that makes traffic enforcement so deadly to begin with.”<\/p>\n Berkeley’s no stranger to radical ideas, but when it comes to this proposal, many people ABC7 spoke to in Downtown Berkeley were not necessarily ready for this new idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n