A “Predatory” Stop-Sign Camera Is Terrorizing My Neighborhood

Re:A “Predatory” Stop-Sign Camera Is Terrorizing My Neighbor... by sneak on Monday February 15, 2021 @10:51AM (#26143832)

> With civil statutes, the objective is not to fully extinguish behaviors like jaywalking, but to provide law-enforcement with tools to maintain order. Most officers don't run around citing people for every violation they spot. They instead look for people who are behaving in a way that is dangerous or disorderly, and then use the law to reign them in.

It's not about "maintaining order". These laws serve as a legitimate cover story for police to harass indiscriminately, as they are widely disregarded, giving a blank check to police to stop and harass anyone based on their own hunches, biases, or prejudice.

It's a bad system, and it has nothing to do with maintaining order, and everything to do with legitimizing police misconduct.

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Re:A “Predatory” Stop-Sign Camera Is Terrorizing My Neighbor... by omginternets on Monday February 15, 2021 @11:13AM (#26144037)

Yes, this stuff happens, yes it's a consequence of calling upon LEO to make judgement calls, and it's a real problem, and yes it's worth fixing.

It is not, however -- by any stretch of the imagination -- the goal of civil statutes to enable indiscriminate harassment.

Your anti-cop ideology is leaking. It's unoriginal, uninsightful, and unhelpful.

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Re:A “Predatory” Stop-Sign Camera Is Terrorizing My Neighbor... by sneak on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:41PM (#26145691)

> It is not, however -- by any stretch of the imagination -- the goal of civil statutes to enable indiscriminate harassment.

Do you have any evidence to support this claim? There's plenty to support the idea that these non-crimes exist on the books specifically to enable police to target so-called "undesirables" who would otherwise be breaking no law:

https://lbpost.com/longbeachize/opinion/the-classist-racist-...

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