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Agreed. I don't see driving while suspended as free of threat to public safety.Driving with a suspended license etc. Its kind of a threat to society since most of these fuckheads speed, drive intoxicated and dont signal on left turns. In some areas, they may have guns etc, yeah i want that off the streets. Fuck em.
@nhbbear on this one I have to admit I have no reference point upon which to judge with any certainty what ought to be done. I know what my feelings tell me but that's just from the news and whatnot. I happen to live in an extremely safe place from the point of view of intentional weaponized violence. But it's also rife with extremely selfish drivers and not nearly enough enforcement. So I can only relate my experience and what little I do know, HTH.
The other day I walked to the grocery store--perhaps a 15 minute walk--and no less than 3 times I was nearly run over in a crosswalk by drivers turning and failing to see me or just plain refusing to cede the right of way. One of them was a fire department pickup truck. One of them I was able to see clearly the entire time looking to his left--he never looked in my direction at all until after he had jammed his foot on the gas. If I had not been paying attention either--say looking at my phone--it would have been bad, no exaggeration. It's also a daily occurrence walking back and forth to work where I pass many one-way streets. It happens constantly that people fly past the stop sign and right onto the crosswalk before they stop--if they stop--and I have had very close calls more times than I can count now.
Contrast that with Halifax Police being found to be so grossly fond of "street checks" and so fond of targeting black people especially, but really minorities in general, that street checks were found to be criminalizing those very people.
Out of all the quotes you posted I found this one to be most troubling:
"“Somewhere along the way to righteous demands for police reform, we have elected to toss the baby out with the bathwater. Proactive policing strategies, which were adopted more than three decades ago, have come under knee-jerk assault, though studies have provided evidence they can prevent or reduce crime.” — James Gagliano, CNN"
I can't tell if he's talking about predictive policing software here but that shit's just plain bad.
tl;dr every place is different and a 1-size fits all approach is not wise. But the bias evident in much of policing--unintentional or not--needs to go if things are to get better--letting people get away with shit or making it easy to do so isn't helping.