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LA City Council sides with criminals over cops in brainless traffic stop ban

The Los Angeles City Council voted 14-0 to advance restrictions on police traffic stops rooted in one dangerous idea: That cops enforcing traffic laws are somehow the real threat on the streets of LA.

Not the drunk driver.

Not the gang member carrying an illegal gun.

Not the reckless driver blowing through intersections at 90 miles per hour.

Only in LA could elected officials look at street disorder and decide the problem is still too much policing.

Read the motion that passed and the message is obvious: Los Angeles is now governed by people who start with suspicion of the LAPD.

Their presumption seems to be that officers are out there waiting to abuse motorists unless City Hall puts another leash on them.

The chief architect of this madness is City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who has spent years trying to move traffic enforcement away from police officers.

On his own official city website, Harris-Dawson says LA policing has relied on traffic stops “as a method to fish for potential criminal suspects.” He also declares that “it is unnecessary to have armed law enforcement stopping people for vehicle code violations.”

That is not public safety policy. That is an attack on public safety, dressed up as reform.

Harris-Dawson described the council’s latest action as merely a “down payment.”

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