lordredsnake t1_j5k43lq wrote
Reply to comment by aintjoan in Hit-and-run crashes hours apart kill woman in South Philadelphia, man riding bike in Kensington by hdhcnsnd
I've made the same post as yours in this sub many times, so I get it. I agree the law isn't the prime cause of the spike in recklessness, but it almost certainly is related.
Even if cops did want to do their jobs, we can't expect them to get all reckless drivers off the road just by observing the 1% of the time they're egregiously breaking the law instead of being able to respond to the 100% of the time they're breaking the law with fake or obscured tags.
People want to look at it like it's only one thing or the other, but the truth is in the middle.
JBizznass t1_j5k7axe wrote
If we want police to be proactive we can’t take away their tools that allow them to be proactive!
I understand the intent of the law, but removing tools that allow police to protect law abiding residents isn’t the way to foster equitable policing.
a-german-muffin t1_j5kc04j wrote
The kind of stuff scrapped in the Philly law is along the lines of NJ's license plate frame stops, which the state Supreme Court there called a total fishing expedition that has resulted in inadmissible evidence. If these are the kinds of tools cops need to do their jobs, when most of us could sit on our steps and count a dozen moving violations a day without even trying, that would seem to say more about the cops than the law.
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