Philadelphia banning low-level traffic stops

Philadelphia volition go the archetypal large metropolis successful the U.S. to prohibition constabulary officers from making low-level postulation stops.

Mayor Jim Kenney volition motion an enforcement bid this week to enact the “Diving Equality” law, according to NBC News.

Police officers volition not beryllium allowed to halt drivers for things that aren’t an imminent hazard to nationalist safety. That includes breached taillights oregon expired registration.

The Driving Equality Bill, which was drafted aft negotiations with the constabulary department, is meant to forestall radical disparities wrong policing.

“We request to rethink police-community relations successful a mode that does not infringe connected nationalist safety. I judge that my Driving Equality Agenda does conscionable that,” said Councilmember Isaiah Thomas successful a June statement.

According to CNN, Black drivers accounted for 72% of the astir 310,000 postulation stops by constabulary officers betwixt October 2018 and September 2019.