StrategicBlenderBall t1_j6hnew0 wrote
Reply to comment by ilovemytvalot in After viewing the Tyre Nichols murder videos, are there any police reform protests happening in New Jersey this weekend? by billmurrayspokenword
Wow, that’s stupid. “There’s been a lot of violence against brown people, so let’s just stop enforcing vehicle safety standards as an olive branch!” Talk about not getting anything done.
ilovemytvalot t1_j6p7r5f wrote
First, no one is saying to stop enforcing vehicle safety standards. We just do not need cops enforcing non-violent scenarios when we can easily have cameras or drones in place to catch vehicle violations. I would even support reallocating police funds to traffic enforcement agencies so that they can expand and acquire the technology and support to do their jobs.
Second, we should limit the situations where we use cops since they have been proven time and time again that THEY ARE RACIST. They use traffic violations as a cover to act on racial profiling. Studies show that black or hispanics are more likely to be pulled over and that they are more likely to be ticketed than white drivers. Below are two links that show the data on this issue:
https://crimeandjusticeresearchalliance.org/rsrch/racial-disparities-in-traffic-ticketing/
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/4/pgac144/6652221
If anyone is interested in learning and understanding the numbers that show police brutality is an epidemic, I highly recommend checking out and even donating to
StrategicBlenderBall t1_j6p99fk wrote
Isn’t it more reasonable to say that Black and Hispanic people are more likely to drive vehicles under disrepair because they are statistically poorer than non Black and Hispanic people? Maybe we should have some sort of agency that inspects vehicles for safety violations? Like a motor vehicle agency? They could even do those inspections on an annual basis!
Oh wait, most state motor vehicle agencies no longer do safety inspections because… reasons?
https://haynes.com/en-us/tips-tutorials/what-know-about-vehicle-inspections-all-50-states
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