The New Stop Policy Perpetuates Injustices and Racism

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d attacked the Police Commission regarding the new stop policy claiming that the police would be hampered from conducting routine, legal stops. If the police performed their duties according to the law they enforce, there would be no need for such policy. The reality is the police without a doubt is known for being biased in doing their jobs. People of color are singled out more greatly than whites.</p><p id="24be">The police union even went so far to claim that the new stop policy would embolden criminals and keep more guns on the street. They are out of touch with reality and want to allow the police freedom to treat people any way they choose. The NRA and their supporters are the reasons more guns are on the street.</p><p id="b568">The police union and these cops who are guilty of such behavior are the problem. The police union’s goal is too protect the police no matter how many infractions they have on their records or how many unlegal activities have occurred at their hands.</p><p id="8ea3">Another side of the coin, critics to the Los Angeles Police commission called the proposed new stop policy a sham as it yet allows the police to make stops to harrass people of color under a new guise. The best antidote here is too ban an ineffective policy targeted toward people of color.</p><p id="e501">Advocates against the new stop policy, oppose it because it does nothing to end the pretextual stops and the Commission totally dismissed the lived realities of Black and brown people.</p><p id="e115">There is another major concern, will the police commission hold these violators accountable, and how or will disciplinary actons be left up to the police department? This is a major detail that needs to be addressed, written, and implemented by desginated authorities. Accountability and transparency as usual may fall through the cracks, otherwise.</p><p id="62ca">According to The Times, in a 2019 analysis, Black and Latino’s drivers were stopped disproportionally to white drivers, and Black drivers were stopped at a rate more than five times their share of L.A.’s population. A 2020 study conveyed that Black and Latino’s drivers were stopped far more than white drivers.</p><p id="2461">These stops proved to be ineffective and led only into 2% of traffic stops resulting in arrest. This fact confirms the need to ban a practice that does not work and targets people of color.</p><p id="68a2">Supposedly, t

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his new policy would required that such stops should not be based on a hunch or person’s characteristics such as race, gender, age, homeless circumstance or presence in a high-crime location.</p><p id="30a8">In conclusion, in reality, this proposed new stop policy lacks reality to make a bad situation better and needs to be banned in order to rid the community of color of much injustices at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department.</p><p id="3895">For additional reads:</p><div id="fb65" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/police-hunch-stops-versus-reality-961a4591d30b"> <div> <div> <h2>Police Hunch Stops Versus Reality</h2> <div><h3>How hunch stops are disproportionally rendered to POC motorists and pedestrians.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*nnb5Y9ezoiLvDj9k)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="407b" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/no-knock-warrant-needs-to-be-abolished-b73e7875e190"> <div> <div> <h2>No Knock Warrant Needs to be Abolished</h2> <div><h3>Why keep a racially motivated biased and misused law on the books.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*ZpirC2NINq60IadT.jpg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="cb13" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/two-stockton-police-officers-a-menace-to-society-a93e7549ef74"> <div> <div> <h2>Two Stockton Police Officers, a Menace to Society</h2> <div><h3>How a seventeen years old black man was beaten, kicked, suffered two black eyes and what resembled a boot print to the…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*Iz-thxj-HjOeVApD.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

The New Stop Policy Perpetuates Injustices and Racism

How some policies do not require a makeover but being banned.

For too many years, law enforcement’s actions have gone unchecked and many have suffered in the interim being wronged due to bias by the police.

The police can no longer initiate traffic stops but face new traffic stop rules. Will this new policy, stop the hate? The police’s actions have gone unchecked for so many years and has never been under the radar in the midst of much outcry from the community.

Supposedly, the police who failed to honor the new traffic stop rules will find themselves disciplined when they fail to explain why they escalated a stop. According to the new stop policy, violaters will be forced to undergo training and face increasingly severe punishments, for escalating such stops into criminal investigations. Who will be the enforcer here, one of their own police officials or the police union?

The Los Angeles Police Commission was instrumental in these new rules pertaining to stopping pedestrians and drivers violations only to investigate for more serious crimes. Also, once passed, the officer would be required to record themselves on their body-worn cameras before or during stops explaining why they suspect the person of committing a more serious crime.

In the construction of this new stop policy along with guidlines for progressive disciplinary actions of the police starting with counseling and retraining, the public will have their opportunity to share their input with officials from the union along with the Los Angeles Police Commission.

Also, langauge was added that warned the police of discipline escalating with successive violations of the new stop policy. Again, who will do the discpline is not yet written in this policy. Ths loop hole will afford the police accountablity to fall through the cracks, again.

Of course, as to be expected, the police union opposed and attacked the Police Commission regarding the new stop policy claiming that the police would be hampered from conducting routine, legal stops. If the police performed their duties according to the law they enforce, there would be no need for such policy. The reality is the police without a doubt is known for being biased in doing their jobs. People of color are singled out more greatly than whites.

The police union even went so far to claim that the new stop policy would embolden criminals and keep more guns on the street. They are out of touch with reality and want to allow the police freedom to treat people any way they choose. The NRA and their supporters are the reasons more guns are on the street.

The police union and these cops who are guilty of such behavior are the problem. The police union’s goal is too protect the police no matter how many infractions they have on their records or how many unlegal activities have occurred at their hands.

Another side of the coin, critics to the Los Angeles Police commission called the proposed new stop policy a sham as it yet allows the police to make stops to harrass people of color under a new guise. The best antidote here is too ban an ineffective policy targeted toward people of color.

Advocates against the new stop policy, oppose it because it does nothing to end the pretextual stops and the Commission totally dismissed the lived realities of Black and brown people.

There is another major concern, will the police commission hold these violators accountable, and how or will disciplinary actons be left up to the police department? This is a major detail that needs to be addressed, written, and implemented by desginated authorities. Accountability and transparency as usual may fall through the cracks, otherwise.

According to The Times, in a 2019 analysis, Black and Latino’s drivers were stopped disproportionally to white drivers, and Black drivers were stopped at a rate more than five times their share of L.A.’s population. A 2020 study conveyed that Black and Latino’s drivers were stopped far more than white drivers.

These stops proved to be ineffective and led only into 2% of traffic stops resulting in arrest. This fact confirms the need to ban a practice that does not work and targets people of color.

Supposedly, this new policy would required that such stops should not be based on a hunch or person’s characteristics such as race, gender, age, homeless circumstance or presence in a high-crime location.

In conclusion, in reality, this proposed new stop policy lacks reality to make a bad situation better and needs to be banned in order to rid the community of color of much injustices at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department.

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