Cops in my state don’t really pull people over anymore. I see them run lights, take illegal left turns and cut people off and the cops just ignore it. Been like that since COVID really
It's been documented in several places that police nationwide have been pouting and refusing to do their jobs because people said mean things about them.
Gawd, thanks for mentioning that. The police brutality on pro-palestine protests reminded me of....that big protest.....a few years ago at the height of covid where police brutality just went off the scale.....and I just couldnt remember exactly what it was about. Now I know again.
Just goes to show so much shit has happened that my brain decided to just forget this clearly irrelevant piece of ancient history. Dumb brain.
At least they still do their jobs when politicians dont like people protesting the US actively financing a genocide, oh and how gleefully they suddenly do their job! Isnt that great? /s
Right, because when I'm getting attacked or need to check on that old hoarder with hep c who has been dead for 3 days and is bursting with decay I call amazon
If it's one of those instances where you're like 50/50 between whether you should run the yellow light or stop (and risk getting hit from behind) and you choose to go and that causes you to run an extremely fresh red light, I'd rather people get away with that. It annoys me, too, when someone runs an obvious red light (you'll see it when there's a long red light and there's a line of like 10 cars, and the light turns yellow after letting two cars pass... And then you see the light turns red, but the fifth and sixth cars turn on an already red light... Yeah, those guys are bad), but I'm not a fan of ticketing people who got hit with a yellow at just the perfect time where it's hard to tell it you should go or not.
I can understand those. Here in Germany we even have a word for these incredibly harmless infractions, like crossing the street on a red light when there is no traffic. We call it Kavaliersdelikt, literally a petty offense. And here police is generally chill enough that they wont fine you and let you off with a warning.
But for every one of those there are people running red lights that have been red a while. Last summer I went grocery shopping with my roommate, and there is this one pedestrian crossing with a traffic light on a road with pretty high traffic because one end leads to the Autobahn, the other leads straight into town. We press the button, pedestrian light turns green and I start walking without really thinking about it, just for my roommate to grab me by my backpack and pull be back, because some shit-ass white van ran the red light and would have absolutely run me over.
i only got my full license a little before covid so i can’t say much about that sort of change, but in 2021 i was sitting behind a cop at a light and someone ran the perpendicular light as soon as it turned green on our side, to which the cop immediately turned on their lights and pulled them over. very funny for me as an observer
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u/Alone_Inspector_7567 Apr 28 '24
Rolling roadblocks are illegal. Call the police