What’s a little extra 5 or 10 mph on the clock?

  • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    It’s worse than that. If everyone speeds all the time, cops have a valid reason to pull over and harass anyone they choose, on the pretext of speeding. You’ll never guess what demographic gets a disproportionate amount of police attention despite not speeding (or committing other traffic violations) significantly more than average.

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      And of you’re not speeding, it appears in the US they stop you for endangering others on the road

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      So they set up speed camera(that is not Flock or mass surveillance) and people yell about constitutional right.

      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Rightly so. A machine should not be able to enforce the laws. You have the right to face your accuser in the US - can’t often do so if humans are taken out of the enforcement loop.