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Daunte Wright Shooting a Reminder That It's Not Cops Who Should Fear for Their Lives During Traffic Stops

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The truth about traffic stops and violence. The fatal by a police officer and who supposedly spawned a rash of demonstrations against police brutality in which protesters were . It's also opened yet another discussion about U.S. policing—why do we to enforce traffic violations anyway?—and how overcriminalization leads to tragedy. Stupid laws spawn enforcement of stupid laws by trigger-happy cops who have been primed to see much of the American populace as threats to control, rather than people they're supposed to "serve and protect."One commonly-offered defense in cases of cops murdering people during routine traffic stops is that such stops can be incredibly dangerous for police officers. State authorities and their bootlickers try hard to convince us that police fear and subsequent overreaction during traffic stops is only rational in the face of the extreme danger such stops place them in. Traffic stops very frequently end badly for police, they say.But it's actually not true that traffic stops are a major source of serious violence against police officers. A paper published in the Michigan Law Review in 2019 ("Radley Balko of The Washington Post&nbsp;on Twitter. "Those cases are of course tragic and awful. But drumming it into cops to see every stop as his or her potential last has real world consequences. As we've seen.An officer is orders of magnitude more likely to die of a lightning strike or insect sting.— Radley Balko (@radleybalko)In any event, the fact that stops over minor motor vehicle infractions do sometimes lead to violence—against police officers and the people they pull over—presents yet another reason to resist putting police and drivers in direct contact over non-risky matters like expired licenses, a broken taillight, or an illegally hung air freshener.Everytime you say, "There oughta be a law", you're actually saying, "I wish armed thugs were roaming around using this as an excuse to murder people." Because ALL laws are "enforced" via the implied threat of death:— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill)If folks insist on criminalizing or fining drivers for some such infractions still, that could be taken care of with photographs and paper notices, as many speeding tickets are. This would put both cops and drivers in less danger. That we don't operate this way shows how much authorities rely on routine—and often pretextual—traffic stops as a way to search for drugs or find other reasons to harass and arrest people they don't like the looks of.Why do federal health officials show such disdain for lifesaving drugs? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) want the U.S. because out of the 7 million doses given so far, six people developed a blood clotting disorder.6 cases out of 7 million people. What a disaster. This is going to get people killed. And it's going to create more vaccine hesitancy. These people don't understand cost-benefit analysis. They keep making mistakes by orders of magnitude.— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538)"While the move was framed as a recommendation to health practitioners in the states, the federal government is expected to pause administration of the vaccine at all federally run vaccination sites," &nbsp;The New York Times. "Federal officials expect that state health officials will take that as a strong signal to do the same."Meet Jane Coaston. The Washington Post podcast host and always-interesting libertarian thinker and writer Jane Coaston:Jane Coaston hates the phrase "the Black community." The 33-year-old journalist always jokes about her next "Black community meeting," mocking the idea that she and millions of other Americans are a monolithic group that might convene regularly on Zoom. Coaston's point is that Black people are individuals, even if they're often not seen that way. "We expect a level of heterogeneity among White people that communities of color aren't granted," she says.Coaston's own individuality should be unmistakable, particularly among her left-leaning media peers in heavily Democratic D.C. The former political reporter for Vox and MTV is a registered Libertarian who got her start in right-leaning college media and professes "a healthy skepticism of state power." She also happens to be a happily married queer person, a former speechwriter for the Human Rights Campaign, a churchgoing Christian and a fitness buff who works out roughly twice a day. In November, she joined the New York Times, where she hosts the paper's relaunched opinion podcast "The Argument."• New Mexico's marijuana legalization is here:✅ SIGNED: Special Session HB 2, legalizing adult-use cannabis in New Mexico!This legislation is a major, major step forward for our state. Legalized adult-use cannabis is going to change the way we think about New Mexico for the better – our workforce, our economy, our future.— Michelle Lujan Grisham (@GovMLG)• President Joe Biden is once again• Following Utah's lead, Texas considers porn filter legislation. "Texas Republicans successfully amended a rural broadband bill last week to add a provision that prioritizes the awarding of contracts to internet service providers that 'maintain a program to, by default, block access to pornographic or other obscene materials,'" XBIZ .• Walter Olson on the . (And on the vote from Reason's Eric Boehm.)• Say yes to this philosophy:1. Say no to crony capitalism. Providing special benefits to favored businesses breeds unfairness and incentivizes corruption.-and-2. Say no to punitive government. Retaliating against corporations for dissenting from government policies violates the Constitution.— David French (@DavidAFrench)(See also: ".")• Sigh:This is obviously not true. You can oppose racism while thinking student debt cancelation is bad policy, poorly targeted to address racial disparities, oppression, and poverty.It does damage to the cause of actual anti-racism to try to hook all your favored policies onto it.— Aaron Ross Powell (@ARossP)

The truth about traffic stops and violence. The fatal by a police officer and who supposedly spawned a rash of demonstrations against police brutality in which protesters were . It's also opened yet another discussion about U.S. policing—why do we to enforce traffic violations anyway?—and how overcriminalization leads to tragedy. Stupid laws spawn enforcement of stupid laws by trigger-happy cops who have been primed to see much of the American populace as threats to control, rather than people they're supposed to "serve and protect."One commonly-offered defense in cases of cops murdering...

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Daunte Wright Shooting a Reminder That It's Not Cops Who Should Fear for Their Lives During Traffic Stops

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