{"id":5976,"date":"2022-03-02T14:48:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T22:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2022-03-02T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T22:48:16","slug":"los-angeles-police-can-no-longer-make-traffic-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5976","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Police Can No Longer Make Traffic Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five member Los Angeles Police Commission has announced a new policy, effective immediately, which prohibits officers from making traffic stops for violations like failure to signal for a turn, a broken taillight or expired registration, unless the officer can present evidence that a more serious crime has occurred.\u00a0 Kevin Rector of the Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-03-01\/new-limits-on-pretextual-stops-by-lapd-to-take-effect-this-summer-after-training\">reports<\/a> that the new policy, which ignores state law, is meant to prevent &#8220;pretextual stops&#8221; where an officer pulls over a suspicious vehicle for a minor traffic violation in order to determine if the driver is currently wanted, or is carrying an illegal firearm or drugs.\u00a0 It is legal under state law for police to pull over a vehicle for a traffic violation and look for evidence of a more serious crime.\u00a0 According to Commission President William Briggs there &#8220;is no data that anyone can point to that establishes pretextual stops\u00a0 curtail violent crime in our city.&#8221;\u00a0 Briggs and others supporting the policy said it was needed to reduce racially biased policing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When pressed for data supporting the new policy, Briggs reported that of the 20,000 vehicle stops in the primarily black and Hispanic Newton Division in 2021, 64% were Hispanic and 33% were black.\u00a0 Less than 10% of the vehicles had contraband and fewer than 4% had firearms.\u00a0 So, most of the vehicle stops for traffic offenses in a heavily black and Hispanic district had black and Hispanic drivers and during 2,000 of them police found drugs, and in another 800 they confiscated illegal guns.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>That is<\/em> &#8220;data that establishes pretextual stops curtail violent crime.&#8221;\u00a0 Taking 800 guns off the street in one city district is a very effective way to reduce armed violence.\u00a0 What Briggs doesn&#8217;t tell us is how many vehicles were being driven by people without a valid license?\u00a0 How many drivers or passengers had warrants out for their arrest?\u00a0 How many of the cars were stolen?\u00a0 The Oklahoma City bomber was caught in a pretextual traffic stop.\u00a0 Thank goodness Oklahoma police were not prohibited from pulling him over.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles is awash with violent crime, burglaries, carjackings and assaults and the Police Commission is preventing police from stopping suspicious vehicles violating traffic laws.\u00a0 What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to replace the commissioners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five member Los Angeles Police Commission has announced a new policy, effective immediately, which prohibits officers from making traffic stops for violations like failure to signal for a turn, a broken taillight or expired registration, unless the officer can present evidence that a more serious crime has occurred.\u00a0 Kevin Rector of the Los Angeles Times reports that the new policy, which ignores state law, is meant to prevent &#8220;pretextual stops&#8221; 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