🚀 go-pugleaf

Giving a warning abou;t a sobriety checkpoint fails to address the
"revenue source only" concern, since the only folks to be fined at a
sobriety checkpoint deserve it.  I thought the point was to hinder
policing as a revenue-collection oriented activity.

On my block (near Lincoln Park) in DC at the end of the month Officer
Charlene parks her cruiser and fines every single car with out of state
plates that turns the corner (charging them with failure to stop at a
sign she cannot even see from her position).  THIS is a law enforcement
mugging, and we routinely get the word out around the neighborhood when
it happens.  No arrests, no fines, and no tickets result in Officer C
taking her lazy ass somewhere else to meet her quota.

And the DC cops wonder why they lack community support...white or
black.

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 Toni Burnham                         
 Publications Guru                    
 CFS/The World Bank                   Email    aburnham@worldbank.org

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employer.