Driving While Black protest
A luxury car-based protest called Driving While Black rolled through Montreal Sunday on the eve of a new SPVM policy about “random” verifications of drivers. Two convoys converged near Namur metro.
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david1828 18:50 on 2020-07-05 Permalink
They should be doing 100% more cat stops on everyone, using speed and red light radars to send tickets automatically, and generally doing far more to increase safety on the roads. Would be ironic if these racialism protesters actually got the cops/government to do a better job cracking down on dangerous drivers.
Kate 19:19 on 2020-07-05 Permalink
If they stop people for poor driving rather than their skin colour it will be better for everyone.
Ephraim 19:59 on 2020-07-05 Permalink
Does this HELP in any way with making the streets safer, or just taxation and busy work? It is often done as a way of collecting tax money in the US (until they set a ratio to stop police from setting up speed traps) and busy work to make it appear that they are working, when there just isn’t enough police work to do…. Nothing convinces us to cut the police budget than a report saying that there wasn’t enough work to do.
steph 07:05 on 2020-07-06 Permalink
If the police ticketed with the motivation to make the streets safer, we’d all be driving 10km under the limit and doing 5 second full stops. They don’t do this because it would end their ticket revenue. Ticket quotas are designed to maximize longterm revenue.
david282 14:12 on 2020-07-06 Permalink
They don’t do it for two reasons:
1) there’s not enough police on the road to deter this behavior;
2) the police are indifferent to this type of dangerous behavior and do the minimum level of enforcement required by their bosses.
Ephraim 16:05 on 2020-07-06 Permalink
They don’t do it because those laws are unenforcable and don’t actually provide results.
davdi1823 02:56 on 2020-07-07 Permalink
More cops on the streets, photo radar on the highways/arterials and for red lights/blocking the box, stiffer penalties. That’s all you need.