If women were kept barefoot in the kitchen where they belong and not allowed out of the house; the incidence of stranger rape would be reduced significantly. One study says 15% of female college students are raped while attending college. If all women were banned from higher education; that 15 % would be saved a life changing experience. Do I believe this crap? No, but I wanted to put the following article in its proper context: One-simple-change-traffic-laws-can-reduce-police-brutality.

The writer proposes decriminalizing all traffic laws, thus removing arrest from the equation and preventing the police from escalating the situation to the point where deadly force is required. Don’t think, feel, sounds good, doesn’t it?

Remember Hitler built the autobahn and Mussolini made the trains run on time. The writer hs stooped to the lowest of the low liberal tricks. Narrow the focus down so tight, ignoring anything that conflicts with the narrative and stick to it. If one uses that criteria, even Hitler and Mussolini come off as pretty good guys.

Many states do follow a “points system” which is an administrative system. The only thing wrong with this is that there are two players in every traffic stop. The officer making the stop and the individual being stopped. Here are two incidents, each happened in Texas, fifty years apart.

Travis County

Deputy Charles Lacey was shot in the throat by a man he discovered sexually assaulting a woman in a car on February 18, 1981.

The man had murdered two other people earlier in the day before abducting the woman. He had pulled over on the side of the road and was attempting to assault her when Deputy Lacey pulled up behind them. The man immediately drove away but was stopped by Deputy Lacey approximately one mile away.

When Deputy Lacey contacted the driver, he was immediately shot. The wound paralyzed him from the neck down, and he died on November 5, 1982, from complications of the wound.

The woman the suspect was assaulting was able to escape when the man stopped for gas later in the day. The subject was convicted of attempted capital murder and sentenced to 99 years in prison.

Deputy Lacey was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War. He had served with Travis County Sheriff’s Office for four years and had previously served with the Austin Police Department for five years. He was survived by his wife.

Additional Details: The suspect fired over his shoulder while seated in the driver’s seat. Deputy Lacey never made actual contact with the driver.

San Antonio Police Department, Texas
May 1931, Officer Scrivano was shot and killed while investigating an automobile accident. One of the men involved in the accident pulled out a gun and shot the officer. Officer Scrivano was able to return fire and fatally wound the suspect. Officer Scrivano had been with the agency for three years.

In the Travis County incident, the officer never knew what he had, a traffic stop, a domestic disturbance or something worse. Fifty years earlier, Officer Scrivano was trying to investigate a minor traffic accident when he was gunned down. So the premise that the police are the ones bringing violence to traffic stops doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

To continue my dismantling of this yo-yo’s premise I now offer a quick quiz.

1. George decides he can’t take another minute of his mother-in-law’s nagging. So while the wife is away at work, George kills his mother-in-law, Mabel. Now George has to figure out what to do with Mabel. He can:

A. Do a weekend at Bernie’s imitation and carry her onto a crosstown bus, hoping to find a suitable disposal site along the way.

B. Leave her stuffed behind the couch and hope she doesn’t stink up the place too bad.

C. George can load Mabel into the trunk of her car, a car he is forbidden to drive, and take Mabel for a nice ride in the country.

2. Demetrius and Laquawn decide they are going to rob the local convenience store. They obtain a gun and stocking masks. They are debating getaway options and reduced them to three:

A. Time the robbery to coincide with the arrival of the crosstown bus that stops outside.

B. Arrive in a Taxi and tell the driver to wait.

C. Steal a car.

D. Strut away from the scene down the middle of the street, like nothing happened and tell the cop who tells you to get out of the road, “to get fucked.”

Chances are you picked option “C” as your choice. If one is going about one’s lawful business there is nothing wrong with a bus or taxi. The same is true for a car. If you are a law abiding citizen, there is a chance you will be stopped by the police. You may even get a ticket. Your schedule will be set back fifteen minutes, and then you will be on your way. You have better odds of winning the lottery than getting shot by the police.

As my quiz illustrates, bad guys have the same requirements as the rest of us. They need to get from point “A” to point “B,” but due to the nature of their business, public transportation just won’t do. There used to be a concept called a “pretext stop.” A pretext stop occurred when a cop observed a motorist that the cop knew engaged in criminal activity. Lacking probable cause to stop the motorist for the criminal activity, the cop stops him for a traffic violation. With the traffic violation, the officer can expand his investigation beyond the original stop. Because the cop had an ulterior motive the subsequent search was ruled unreasonable, the evidence was suppressed and the charges dismissed. The Supreme Court decided that the whole concept was ridiculous and threw it out.

To show you how ridiculous the pretext stop rules were I’ll supply one scenario applied to two officers. Scenario: Filthy McNasty is parked outside an elementary school at the end of the school day. Officer Galchutt, who has the reputation for being the stupidest, laziest cop ever to wear the uniform, observes that McNasty is parked in a no parking zone. Galchutt walks up to tell Galchutt to move and observes that McNasty is masturbating furiously to kiddie porn. About the same time, a passing mother sees the same thing, so Officer Galchutt is forced to make an arrest.

Same scenario only this time the call comes into the police station and Det. Hard Charger of the Sex Crimes Detail takes the call. The caller identifies Filthy McNasty, the car he is driving, the license plate, the school he likes to habituate, time of day, and his activities while there. The caller hangs up without identifying himself. (At the time that pretextual stops were in effect, the information related here was close but probably didn’t amount to probable cause). Det. Hard Charger goes to the school and observes everything that the caller told him, with the exception of activity happening in the car, is true. Det Hard Charger also observes the parking violation and decides that the parking violation will put him over the top. He contacts Filthy McNasty with the same result. Who gets the hero badge?

Under the pretext stop doctrine, the winner is Officer Galchutt, being an idiot assigned to patrol; it is in Officer Galchutt’s job description to issue or otherwise regulate traffic. His attempt to do so with Filthy McNasty led to the inadvertent discovery of evidence of other crimes. Good search.

Det Hard Charger is assigned to a sex crimes unit. While he had information that indicated that Filthy McNasty had ulterior motives for being at the school, it didn’t amount to probable cause. As a detective, Hard Charger does not enforce the traffic code, and his attempt to do so was nothing more that a pretext to contact Filthy McNasty. Bad Search, evidence suppressed, charges dismissed.

Liberals have never been the same since the prohibition on pretextual stops was overturned. I characterize their current stance as “driving while committing a felony rule.” Under this rule, anybody committing a felony while operating a motor vehicle is exempt from the application of traffic laws.

Going back to you and I getting stopped by the police. Chances are we are going to be irritated, embarrassed, nervous, resigned or any combination and then some. Go back to the quiz. Do you think maybe George, LeQuawn, and Demetrius might be suffering from a little additional pressure? George has his mother-in-law dead in the trunk. LeQuawn and Demetrius just pulled an armed robbery and are riding in a stolen get-a-way car. As the two greatest detectives in the world, Burt and Ernie from Sesame Street always say, “Which one of these is not like the other?”

The point is that police stop vehicles all the time. Well over 90% of the time that is all, a traffic violation. The other 10% the traffic violation is just the beginning of the rodeo. There needs to be a distinction made, in each example, a traffic violation was the reason for the initial contact. Any subsequent escalation categorizes the event. In any given year, officers are killed while conducting traffic stops. Their death rate is near the top of the list.

Left unaddressed was the original writer’s assertion that eliminating traffic stops would cut down on the number of black men shot by the police. Don’t black men have some control in the matter, like personal responsibility? Oh but we’re talking about a liberal writer, and by now it should be blindingly obvious there is nothing on the face of this earth so bigoted as a liberal. Black men cannot control themselves, they need a white liberal to guide them and look out for their interests.