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I have seen many blame reduced police enforcement caused by low staffing and apathy. Does this seem like a factor in your experience?

• giantg2 5y ago
  In some areas it could also be due to policy aimed removing pretextual stops, like rolling through stop signs, not signaling turns, etc. The rules of the road were put in place as a system to protect people. Things like signaling a turn can be very important to pedestrians crossing a side street. I get that people want to remove pretextual stops to stop bias. But perhaps we should move towards uniform/consistent enforcement rather than simply ignoring the laws. The use of law enforcement discretion to charge some people but not others leads to the bias. This is on more than just driving laws. Then you end up with a minority population being negatively affected while the majority remain in ignorant bliss. If it affected all equally, then the population would be mobilized to remove bad laws from the books (on the basis that they or someone they know were affected by it).