I read the linked article recently and it got me thinking about how we approach policing in traffic stops. To summarize the article, it is reporting a new law that limits police power to stop vehicles for expired registration or nonfunctioning headlights. According to the bill's author, this was written to reduce the racial bias in traffic stops, which is a great idea. However, I think this bill targets the wrong areas for improvement. I personally disagree with because I believe cars should have extra burdens in exchange for operating such a deadly machine. That includes basic traffic stops for operating them in an unsafe manner, and as such I will mainly be focused on the headlight portion of the law. However, the people who I sided with in the article were GOP, who opposed it on a very different principle. They opposed the bill because of how traffic stops can be used as pretext to catch criminals, not because making people operate dangerous machinery safely was a priority. It was this along with quotes in the article about how racialized traffic stops are that got me thinking. What is the purpose of traffic stops? To me, traffic stops should be to discourage driving dangerously or operating vehicles in dangerous ways. To police, and to some GOP politicians, it seems like traffic stops are pretext to commit search, seizure, and other questionably constitutional actions. Of course both parties unfairly target minorities, mainly black people in their traffic stops. Of course, this doesn't even touch the many scandals of officers using a traffic stop to plant evidence to punish "undesiriables". My main question for this thread is "Why?" Why are traffic stops used as a pretext for searches and seizures. The other question I have is, "What direction should stopping the overpolicing of traffic stops take?"
omenmis Now • 100%
we can see your comment and comment back because lemmy.ml federates with beehaw.
i love nimbys. block anything that improves qol because property values. recently nimbys tried to fight an in progress light rail extension due to crime concerns and now their entire city probably wont get a rail connection until they give up.
omenmis Now • 100%
i live in a majority sfh zoned streetcar suburb, however the area is majority walkable and not too awful for biking as a confident adult because of the grid roads for the walkable portion.
however, we are surrounded on all sides outside of this pocket of grid streets by poorly zoned sfh dominated by no sidewalk cul de sacs and 4 lane stroads with painted door zone bike lanes. the most notable areas are anywhere particularly north (rich people so literally no sidewalk) and near freeway interchanges. our south freeway interchange is the worst of them because its very stroady and has an auto dealership next to it. the others dont even try to pretend theyre not highway interchanges.
omenmis Now • 100%
my picture has been nuked, beehaw has 1486'd my stuffed animals
who made this hell game and how do i become the girl on the right ??????
omenmis Now • 100%
not pictured is the FFT of this diagram, where the engineers reside
hoping this catches on, pretty please CA... i like the fact that the money can only go into maintaining the speed cameras or into making the road safer. those are both things desperately needed, especially in LA.
omenmis Now • 100%
you can spout incorrect shit, but you'll probably be banned. Freedom of speech and freedom of association go hand in hand, and admins here will deplatform you much the same way a KKK member at a comedy club will be shown the door.
omenmis Now • 100%
this story is really sad because its happening in the modern day when we know generally that this kind of development will not fix traffic. DOTs seem to me like they're more like a department of cars...
omenmis Now • 100%
I worked at a place that did this. We only saw the tips in the jar go to our pocket, we never saw the online or digital tips.
omenmis Now • 100%
The virgin suburban driver vs the chad suburban cyclist
omenmis Now • 100%
It takes 2 pause cycles, that's essentially O(1) compared to a cache miss.
Huge game changer for LA! Now union station serves almost every line!
omenmis Now • 100%
tbh SD cards are out and mostly for power users, make them compatible with M2 drives :))
omenmis Now • 100%
I still miss steam skins, but these changes look a lot better than before.
omenmis Now • 100%
someone put them all in therapy...
omenmis Now • 0%
Yeah, that's a sticky situation. Low costs driven by lower cost of land acquisition. I will say if you didn't have the car you could probably afford the more expensive markets, but obviously going car free isn't for most people...
That said, its a lot easier to do grocery shopping walking or biking when you just do it for the next few days max. Though if the closest store is a 30 min walk its pretty inconvenient.
omenmis Now • 100%
Really depends on what you want and or need. Good general things to look for are riding position (biggest indicator is drop bars vs flats vs cruiser bars), mounting points for racks and fenders, and reliability. Try to avoid buying from department stores as the bikes are often mass produced and of very low quality.
I would go to a bike shop and ask to test ride some cheap hybrids or cruisers.
omenmis Now • 100%
I had the same experience, biking made me appreciate travel over distances I can't bike. It really is very eye opening.
omenmis Now • 100%
We have that in LA too, just gotta signal it and hope your bike doesn't get jacked.
omenmis Now • 100%
Are you in SM by any chance?
omenmis Now • 100%
Laziness >>> tbh
I made it hard to drive so I bike more often. Every small barrier makes it just a bit more likely that I don't drive.
omenmis Now • 100%
Oof, yeah the storage part is probably one of the hardest things tbh. If you commit to biking it is really nice, though u might still need to drive to get groceries and do errands if u carry a lot of stuff tbh.
Just wondering how people here get around day-to-day. I personally try to use a bike as much as possible, but end up driving because of the structure of US suburbia and being the friend with a car™.
omenmis Now • 100%
For a sec I thought this was about light trucks, but this is still quite scary. I guess human life is just the cost of doing business according to the NHTSA...