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It's so they can find other infractions, like smoking marijuana

by elchief 10y ago

ThrustVectoring 10y ago
A stronger argument for random traffic stops is catching people driving with a suspended license.
- wolfgke 10y ago
  Why are you willing to accept that you need to have a license to drive (a car)?
  - ArkyBeagle 10y ago
    Because a road is a safety intensive commons and establishing basic minimum safety standards works. As was said ad infinitum when I was learning to drive - it's a privilege and not a right.
  - wlievens 10y ago
    For reasons of safety?!
    - hellothere999 10y ago
      Yeah cause having a little card in their pocket stops people from driving in an unsafe fashion Also seems to assume license testing is standardized with rigorous instruction regarding safety. Some states don't require anything more than successfully completing a multiple choice test about signals and signs many folks end up ignoring anyway, and a brief on road exam. People go in and drive safely for the 20 mins their subjected to a road test and sink into bad habits all the time. I personally saw a wobbly 75 year old man with shakey hands (he updated his signature wearing coke bottle thick glasses) and a cane get his license renewal rubber stamped Feeling safer already.
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    As I understand, you don't need a license to drive a car under most state laws -- you just need a license to drive a car on public roads (or, IIRC, in certain cases, on private property where the property owner has opted in to enforcement of public traffic laws.)
Zigurd 10y ago
This is the correct answer. Not the broken taillight. It wasn't. Not the "robbery suspect." All black men match. Philando Castile was pulled over 52 times because police target black men with hostile situations that could get escalated to searches and small-time drug busts. The answer is to end the Drug War and to repeal the "junk" infractions that enable police to initiate contact with minorities for no good reason.
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It's so they can find other infractions, like smoking marijuana

by elchief 10y ago

It's so they can find other infractions, like smoking marijuana

ThrustVectoring 10y ago

A stronger argument for random traffic stops is catching people driving with a suspended license.

wolfgke 10y ago
Why are you willing to accept that you need to have a license to drive (a car)?
- ArkyBeagle 10y ago
  Because a road is a safety intensive commons and establishing basic minimum safety standards works. As was said ad infinitum when I was learning to drive - it's a privilege and not a right.
- wlievens 10y ago
  For reasons of safety?!
  - hellothere999 10y ago
    Yeah cause having a little card in their pocket stops people from driving in an unsafe fashion Also seems to assume license testing is standardized with rigorous instruction regarding safety. Some states don't require anything more than successfully completing a multiple choice test about signals and signs many folks end up ignoring anyway, and a brief on road exam. People go in and drive safely for the 20 mins their subjected to a road test and sink into bad habits all the time. I personally saw a wobbly 75 year old man with shakey hands (he updated his signature wearing coke bottle thick glasses) and a cane get his license renewal rubber stamped Feeling safer already.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  As I understand, you don't need a license to drive a car under most state laws -- you just need a license to drive a car on public roads (or, IIRC, in certain cases, on private property where the property owner has opted in to enforcement of public traffic laws.)

Zigurd 10y ago

This is the correct answer. Not the broken taillight. It wasn't. Not the "robbery suspect." All black men match. Philando Castile was pulled over 52 times because police target black men with hostile situations that could get escalated to searches and small-time drug busts. The answer is to end the Drug War and to repeal the "junk" infractions that enable police to initiate contact with minorities for no good reason.

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