Pennsylvania Joins Blue State Search For Racial Profiling

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is expected to sign legislation into law that prohibits drivers from using cellphones as reported by Fox 29.  While most states have adopted similar laws to reduce distracted driving, the new PA law also requires police departments to document and report the race of drivers detained for traffic stops. The purpose of this new requirement, according to the legislature’s black caucus, is to expose racial profiling by police. In doing so, Pennsylvania joins other Democrat-controlled states in the effort to characterize law enforcement as “systemically racist,” a narrative advanced by Black Lives Matter, the ACLU and race hustlers such as Al Sharpton. The irrefutable fact that different races commit crimes at different rates, unrelated to their proportion of the population, is an inconvenient truth that progressive politicians and the mainstream media prefer to ignore. As Pennsylvania traffic officers shy away from stopping a black motorists using smartphones to avoid being tarred as a racist, the new distracted driver’s law will become merely symbolic.