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PrivacyEnthusiast1 t1_ixy9rlp wrote

Reply to comment by Existing365Chocolate in I'm legit scared of people in cars these days. Why does it feel like society is breaking down? by MintyLacroix

I often walk through an intersection that always has a police presence and cars still will scream through a stop sign at 40 miles an hour (25 zone) almost hitting me and my dog, and the cops don’t do shit. It’s happened twice in the last two weeks. I really don’t understand it.

I’ve already tailored my walk to avoid dangerous intersections, but I can’t avoid this one.

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Important_Nebula6420 t1_ixynuvf wrote

The police aren't allowed to pursue, when they do pursue they get charged with murder if the person running away crashes and dies.

If your boss said "This is your job, but don't do it, if you do your job you'll go to prison for the rest of your life and you'll be sued personally so your wife and kids will suffer too " would you do anything other than sit there and collect a paycheck?

Stealing a quote from someone else (would attribute but can't remember their name): DC progressiveism is just libertarianism with extra steps. If no one ever suffers consequences for breaking the law, you might as well just not have the laws in the first place.

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IcyWillow1193 t1_ixynm4g wrote

Cops don't do shit because they've been told to not do shit. City pols are spending too much time listening to defund/ACAB activists and not enough time looking out for the rest of us.

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NoMoreMonkeyBrain t1_ixz85nc wrote

Which is interesting because I don't think I've ever heard defund or ACAB activists ever agitate to stop enforcing traffic laws, but I have seen a lot of calls to stop treating the police as judge/jury/executioner for nonviolent crimes.

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IcyWillow1193 t1_ixz8yof wrote

>I don't think I've ever heard defund or ACAB activists ever agitate to stop enforcing traffic laws

Getting the police out of traffic enforcement is one of the pillars of anti-police activism. You see it on this sub with people who try to claim violent traffic behavior is solely an infrastructure problem, or that traffic enforcement should be handled administratively, like parking enforcement. It ignores the inherently violent nature of the kind of behavior OP is talking about.

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6FeetBeneathTheMoon t1_ixzk1kh wrote

> I don't think I've ever heard defund or ACAB activists ever agitate to stop enforcing traffic laws

It's literally like the first tenant of the defund people.

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sagarnola89 t1_ixzzq44 wrote

BS. Most "defund the police "types ride public transit and actually care about lessening congestion and pollution. The aggressive drivers are entitled conservative car drivers.

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