Make sure you wear your seatbelt.
Make sure you wear your seatbelt.
The quote from this article that is most concerning to me is this one. If it is true, then we need to change some laws in this country Right Now. If you want to make it a binary issue, then a citizen's safety should outweigh a police officer's. And no law should give police the power to require anything of a citizen without 'reasonable suspicion'. That sounds like a serious Bill of Rights issue that needs to be fixed, asap.
"But police, in their statement, said officers "who make legal traffic stops are allowed to ask passengers inside of a stopped vehicle for identification and to request that they exit a stopped vehicle for the officer’s safety without a requirement of reasonable suspicion."
(Title of article is Hammond police sued over use of Taser during traffic stop)
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81608552/
The quote from this article that is most concerning to me is this one. If it is true, then we need to change some laws in this country Right Now. If you want to make it a binary issue, then a citizen's safety should outweigh a police officer's. And no law should give police the power to require anything of a citizen without 'reasonable suspicion'. That sounds like a serious Bill of Rights issue that needs to be fixed, asap.
"But police, in their statement, said officers "who make legal traffic stops are allowed to ask passengers inside of a stopped vehicle for identification and to request that they exit a stopped vehicle for the officer’s safety without a requirement of reasonable suspicion."
(Title of article is Hammond police sued over use of Taser during traffic stop)
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81608552/
Oh, darling. If you think this is bad, do yourself a favor and don't Google "asset forfeiture".
ReplyDeleteYeah. One of you posted that a while back. Why do people have to mess with my happy fantasy of what this country is like?
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