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"In the year 2013, our officers made over four hundred thousand vehicle stops, mostly for traffic violations. A citation was issued in only about one in six of
by dchichkov 12y ago
"In the year 2013, our officers made over four hundred thousand vehicle stops, mostly for traffic violations. A citation was issued in only about one in six of those stops. Five of the six received warnings. This is the police exercising discretion for minor violations of the law. Few, if any, persons would argue that the police should have no discretion."
Huh. Really? Warnings five out of six times? Is that pretty common?
- HillRat 12y agoWell, it's either an indication that the cops are engaging in aggressive profiling, or are remarkably free of pressure to write tickets. Surprisingly, the answer seems to be the latter -- Chief Anderson is an attorney who was legal counsel to the department's SWAT unit as well as a longtime Nashville cop, who appears to put great faith in building community-police relationships, and whose department has independently adopted stringent anti-profiling rules. Anderson also blew the whistle to Congress a few months ago on an attempt by Secret Service agents to mislead a suspect into believing they had a warrant. If the ACLU designed a supercop, it'd be this guy. Nashville -- who knew?
- Retra 12y agoOnly one of the six times I've been pulled over have I been given a citation. In fact, only one out of 20 times that I speed near the police do I even get pulled over. This is an anecdotal and rough statistic, but in my experience the police are extremely lenient with traffic stops.
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