Police spend most of their time on routine traffic stops, and routine traffic stops could be eliminated by transit and walkable infrastructure. It's almost like it's a racket...
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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Yet another bad consequence of building our cities wrong. If we fixed the zoning code to make them walkable, we wouldn't "need" traffic stops in the first place.
It's amazing how car dependency is an underlying causal factor in nearly every problem in the US, from climate change, to obesity, to the housing crisis, to apparently even police misconduct.
The breaking of traffic laws IS criminal. I live in Houston, which has by far the craziest drivers I've seen in the US, and every day I wish there was more effort by the police to do something about it.
Surprise, surprise!
The real surprise is that people tolerate it
I don't live in the US. But I really wouldn't want unpoliced roads. There are enough dangerous, angry morons on the streets who don't care about the rules and endanger the people around them.
I think it's absolutely necessary to police traffic. The only other option would be to get rid of private powered vehicles, which would also be a good option.
I'm actually in support of more traffic stops. If only they would target the BMWs as much as they target the beaters
and yet there are still plenty of maniac drivers on the road
and some of them are cops.
If the maniacs aren't black, brown, and/or poor, cops don't really give a shit