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#StopBrokenTaillightPolicing

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Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Last month, the Los Angeles City Council voted 13-0 to advance a plan that would end pretext stops for good.<br />pretext stops, a controversial but legal tactic in which officers stop drivers or pedestrians for minor infractions as an excuse to search them or their vehicles in hopes of discovering more serious crimes. <br /> pretext stops predominantly affect Black and Latino people, a claim supported by a 2021 study published in the Stanford Law Review.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StopBrokenTaillightPolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopBrokenTaillightPolicing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/08/08/police-commission-hears-from-san-diegans-on-pretext-stops-i-know-what-it-means-to-be-profiled/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/</span><span class="invisible">08/08/police-commission-hears-from-san-diegans-on-pretext-stops-i-know-what-it-means-to-be-profiled/</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>There have been more than 10,200 vouchers issued to date since the program launched in 2017 in the wake of Philando Castile&#39;s killing during a traffic stop for a broken tail light… The goal is to keep low-income Minnesotans from a &quot;downward spiral&quot; that might come from that ticket</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StopBrokenTaillightPolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopBrokenTaillightPolicing</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EndQualifiedImmunityNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EndQualifiedImmunityNow</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UnconditionalBasicIncome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UnconditionalBasicIncome</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-legislature-vouchers-instead-of-tickets-broken-car-lights/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/min</span><span class="invisible">nesota-legislature-vouchers-instead-of-tickets-broken-car-lights/</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minnesota-trooper-charged-murder-shooting-black-motorist-traffic-stop-rcna135540" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minne</span><span class="invisible">sota-trooper-charged-murder-shooting-black-motorist-traffic-stop-rcna135540</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StopBrokenTaillightPolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopBrokenTaillightPolicing</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EndQualifiedImmunityNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EndQualifiedImmunityNow</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Elie Mystal for The Nation: Whatever else happens in 2024, one thing is certain: The police will kill more people, those people will be disproportionately Black, and nobody will stop them.<br />But, hey, former Harvard University president Claudine Gay improperly cited some of her sources, so really her appointment was the biggest racial injustice story of the year. Not Tyre Nichols, who was lynched by a group of Memphis cops. Not Niani Finlayson, who was fatally shot by a Los Angeles police officer mere seconds after he arrived on the scene to respond to a domestic violence call she made. Not Leonard Allan Cure, who spent 16 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, was exonerated, and was shot to death by police during a traffic stop.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GenocideJoeKnows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenocideJoeKnows</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EndQualifiedImmunityNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EndQualifiedImmunityNow</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TranslatingGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TranslatingGaza</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JohnLewisVotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JohnLewisVotingRightsAct</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StopBrokenTaillightPolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopBrokenTaillightPolicing</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HumanRightsViolationsBuiltIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanRightsViolationsBuiltIn</span></a>: The return of 1990s-style stop-and-frisk policing in Eric Adams&#39; NYC has been a civil-liberties disaster — with more racial profiling, a spike in unconstitutional stops, and little impact in crime. So why is Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker still planning to bring this bad policy to Philadelphia?</p><p><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/stop-and-frisk-new-york-philadelphia-20231109.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inquirer.com/opinion/stop-and-</span><span class="invisible">frisk-new-york-philadelphia-20231109.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DecriminalizeMarijuana" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DecriminalizeMarijuana</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StopBrokenTaillightPolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopBrokenTaillightPolicing</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EndQualifiedImmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EndQualifiedImmunity</span></a></p>
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