Minneapolis to create unarmed traffic enforcement division

You can't expect those with an agenda to actually read what they post, can you? Notice how many likes were received from the usual suspects

 

Because, Mello, there's a certain percentage of people among us who are in a brain-dead STUPOR and/or simply STOOPID, about half the time or more....

Why do so many 'perps' and criminals pull so MUCH of the crap they do...?! And that is a large part of why we need a strong, well-equipped, no-bullshit police force to protect the rest of us from this growing national PESTILENCE!

 

Assuming that’s true, having them waste time on stopping someone because they have an air freshener on their mirror is a bad use of their time.

 

I don't know what the law is regarding "an air freshener on their mirror", but if having one of those things hanging from the real-view mirror is against the law, then the vehicle's owner should remove the damn thing! Then, if he really feels militant about it, he should plan to go to the next city council meeting and raise hell to get the ordinance about air fresheners inside a vehicle's passenger compartment CHANGED.

Afterthought: Isn't it interesting how many of the miseries people suffer in life are those they bring on THEMSELVES...?

 

The UK doesn't have a black population that is nearly equal to the culture of the black population in the U.S.

 

So some patrol maid can send them a ticket. Let the cops handle crimes with actual victims and not just revenue grabs.

 

Parking illegal is also a crime but most cities leave that enforcement to meter maids. Same idea here I think.

 

Do you believe unarmed traffic enforcement will be attempting to pull over stolen cars?

 

But they may have time to clean the scene.

 

The occupant is generally not in the vehicle when the meter expires. Most of the time the driver is when there is a traffic stop. That's when the guy with the boat load of drugs or the body in the trunk shoots the officer who pulled them over.

 

The officer would have been shot in this example whether armed or not

 

If the person who pulled them over had no power to search them or the car, where is the motivation to shoot them?

 

I think the two most dangerous functions of an officer are Traffic stops and family disturbances.

 

Dumbest decision on the planet! Good luck finding morons to take those jobs!

 

The drugs or body in the trunk. The robbery they just pulled and convenience store clerk they left bleeding out. Whatever caused them to be speeding anyway.

 

A police officer can shoot back.

 

Definitely true. Though, it does seem possible that both are made dangerous by the person responding to those incidences having too much authority to cause those incidences to escalate from momentary unpleasantness to lifelong unpleasantness. For example, someone transporting cocaine is not going to try to shoot at someone writing them a ticket for running a stop sign if they know the person writing the ticket cannot also send them to jail for ten years if they find the cocaine.

 

What if they are on probation and making another run? The probation or warrant will show up when the tags are run, the perps know this.

 

I don't see why their tags need to be 'run' at all. Simply recording them for later submission would suffice to serve the fine for the traffic violation as well as protect the responder from being attacked by the offender in effort to prevent being caught. This entire concept of using contact for the commission of minor crimes as a method to catch major criminals is at the very root of the problem. Going after major criminals might be a better job for a dedicated team with advanced training and weaponry as opposed to the lone bureaucrat expecting to issue a minor fine.

 

I do. My wife and I were in the UK at the time.

 

Are people rushing to join the unarmed traffic police force?

 

They may think it will be an easy-peezy civil service job. But, after a few dozen of them start getting killed by perps and criminals, these jobs may get MUCH less popular....