from Hacker News

Berkeley moves to replace police with unarmed civilians for traffic stops

by michaelrkn on 2/25/21, 2:47 PM with 17 comments

• by eyelidlessness on 2/25/21, 3:22 PM

  (Article is 7 months old. I’m too early in coffee to look for newer articles but mentioning in case others might fill in the gap.)

  This is fantastic news. I can say as a white male-presenting person, I find traffic stops intimidating even though I know I’m far less likely to experience violence in the course of one. I can hardly imagine the experience of people of color being approached in their car by someone with gun and taser, knowing a failing brake light or similar malfunction could lead to violence.

  Edit: clicked send by too soon accident, see above re not enough coffee.

  Eliminating that possibility will undoubtedly make traffic stops more safe, and probably also less frequent.

• by opwieurposiu on 2/25/21, 4:22 PM

  Any one else find traffic stops vary greatly by county/state? In GA I would get pulled over once a month. In CO I got pulled over once a decade. My driving was the same in both places. Never figured out what that was about, I just assumed the county in GA needed money.

• by bagacrap on 2/26/21, 3:18 PM

  I would like to see the outcome of this policy applied just down the road in Oakland.

• by steve76 on 2/25/21, 9:45 PM

  Hundreds of cities looted and go up in flames and boarded up. Murder rate doubles. Every child molester and cop killer is release. Drug cartel and jihadis and marxists laugh at us as we pay them to plague and murder us.

  Biden's president, and Lady Gaga's dog goes missing. Now it's a problem. Never mind the guy who was shot multiple times.