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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5037402" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>What the <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />?</p><p></p><p>I just Googled "Civilian Traffic Enforcement Agents" and apparently Philadelphia will be doing this dumb <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> too. Doing this kind of thing supposedly puts one's city at the "forefront of street policing".</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-traffic-stops-enforcement-officers-driving-while-black/3000588/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>"Philadelphia became the first big American city to halt its own police officers from making traffic stops when minor infractions are the reasons for such pullovers.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, the city will begin hiring for its first class of unarmed traffic enforcement officers this month, <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/philly-to-begin-hiring-an-all-new-class-of-unarmed-traffic-officers-this-month/" target="_blank">according to a WHYY report published Monday</a>, and plan have the traffic cops start duty early next year. The civilian positions, who will not be sworn cops, were <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania,_Question_4,_Public_Safety_Enforcement_Officers_Charter_Amendment_(May_2019)" target="_blank">approved by Philadelphia voters through a ballot question in 2019</a>.</p><p></p><p>The two changes to the way motor vehicle laws are enforced in Philadelphia have turned the city into one of the most proactive in the United States when it comes to <a href="https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2020/06/racial_disparities_traffic_stops.php#.YW8RBPlKhPY" target="_blank">mitigating the inequity in how</a> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0858-1" target="_blank">people of color are pulled over compared to white drivers</a>.</p><p></p><p>"I am grateful to my colleagues for voting to pass my Driving Equality bills,” Philadelphia Councilman Isaiah Thomas <a href="https://phlcouncil.com/weekly-report-55/" target="_blank">said after his legislation was approved</a>. "But more so, I am humbled by every person who told my office of the humiliation and trauma experienced in some of these traffic stops."</p><p></p><p>Thomas, who is Black, said, "To many people who look like me, a traffic stop is a rite of passage."</p><p></p><p>"We pick out cars, we determine routes, we plan our social interactions around the fact that it is likely that we will be pulled over by police," he added. "By removing the traffic stops that promote discrimination rather than public safety, City Council has made our streets safer and more equitable."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5037402, member: 48469"] What the :censored:? I just Googled "Civilian Traffic Enforcement Agents" and apparently Philadelphia will be doing this dumb :censored: too. Doing this kind of thing supposedly puts one's city at the "forefront of street policing". [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-traffic-stops-enforcement-officers-driving-while-black/3000588/[/URL] "Philadelphia became the first big American city to halt its own police officers from making traffic stops when minor infractions are the reasons for such pullovers. Meanwhile, the city will begin hiring for its first class of unarmed traffic enforcement officers this month, [URL='https://whyy.org/articles/philly-to-begin-hiring-an-all-new-class-of-unarmed-traffic-officers-this-month/']according to a WHYY report published Monday[/URL], and plan have the traffic cops start duty early next year. The civilian positions, who will not be sworn cops, were [URL='https://ballotpedia.org/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania,_Question_4,_Public_Safety_Enforcement_Officers_Charter_Amendment_(May_2019)']approved by Philadelphia voters through a ballot question in 2019[/URL]. The two changes to the way motor vehicle laws are enforced in Philadelphia have turned the city into one of the most proactive in the United States when it comes to [URL='https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2020/06/racial_disparities_traffic_stops.php#.YW8RBPlKhPY']mitigating the inequity in how[/URL] [URL='https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0858-1']people of color are pulled over compared to white drivers[/URL]. "I am grateful to my colleagues for voting to pass my Driving Equality bills,” Philadelphia Councilman Isaiah Thomas [URL='https://phlcouncil.com/weekly-report-55/']said after his legislation was approved[/URL]. "But more so, I am humbled by every person who told my office of the humiliation and trauma experienced in some of these traffic stops." Thomas, who is Black, said, "To many people who look like me, a traffic stop is a rite of passage." "We pick out cars, we determine routes, we plan our social interactions around the fact that it is likely that we will be pulled over by police," he added. "By removing the traffic stops that promote discrimination rather than public safety, City Council has made our streets safer and more equitable." [/QUOTE]
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