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Berkeley, California proposed a plan to remove armed police from conducting traffic stops. Instead, unarmed city workers will do this task. They also plan on cutting the police budget by 50%. One of the justifications they used for this effort is that Blacks are more likely than Whites to be pulled over.<\/p>\n
From ABC News:<\/span><\/p>\n Numerous studies have shown Black motorists are much more likely to be stopped by police than whites for minor traffic infractions and the results sometimes can be deadly.<\/p>\n Philando Castile, for example, was fatally shot after the 32-year-old was stopped for a broken tail light during a traffic stop in 2016 in Minnesota. Sandra Bland, 28, died in a jail cell three days after being stopped for failing to signal when changing lanes in Texas in 2015.<\/p>\n The Berkeley Police Department said Monday it does not comment on council legislation.<\/p>\n In a joint statement, the police unions for Los Angeles, San Jose and San Francisco said that reckless driving, speeding, driving while under the influence are all dangerous “traffic” enforcement violations.<\/p>\n “We do not believe that the public wants lax enforcement of those incidents by non-sworn individuals,” the unions said. “Traffic stops are some of the most dangerous actions police officers take. What happens when the felon with an illegal gun gets pulled over by the parking police? Nothing good, we’re sure of that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Being in a jail cell for more than a day, for being pulled over for failing to properly signal? Was there something else going on in this situation? You could read the rest of the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"