Media BS Again

Typical Slum times bullshit....again:

• On a recent summer afternoon, I picked up my son from day care so we could go to a park on the South Side. But unlike what most white parents experience while driving their kids to a fun activity, our trip was interrupted by the Chicago police.

  I saw the squad car’s flashing lights in my rearview mirror. I was confused and aggravated because I didn’t break any traffic rules. I worried about being confronted by officers with my son in the back seat and thought of all the times police have shot Black motorists. Still, I pulled over.

  A female officer walked over and leaned into the driver’s side window. When I asked why I had been stopped, she said I took a right turn where I wasn’t supposed to. But there were no signs prohibiting a right turn, so there was no valid reason for the traffic stop.
  

Can we name the intersection in question? Or are we just supposed to take the word of someone with an axe to grind? We wouldn't want to actually check and verify when there are charges of "RACISM!" to throw around, would we?

• Before heading back to the squad car with my driver’s license, the officer demanded that I roll down the passenger window so her partner could see me and my son.

  I didn’t end up with a ticket or formal warning, just like the dozen-plus times I have been stopped by police in the last five years. But I felt humiliated and disrespected and broke down crying after the officers left, which made my son sad.

  No matter how much I vary my routes, police have stopped me to question whether my registration is up to date or to tell me that my car has some minor problem, like a light being out.

Well let's see - (A) rolling down windows for Officer safety is common sense politeness....and it prevents misunderstandings where people might get shot, so you're welcome. (B) you didn't get a ticket, so you're welcome. (C) Disrespected and humiliated how exactly? You never say, so sorry about that snowflake. (D) Minor problems like a light being out? Um, violation of State Law....and you still didn't get a ticket, and you were notified that there was a safety issue with your car. You're welcome again snowflake.

• Just a few weeks before the traffic stop with my son, I joined a lawsuit with four other Chicago residents alleging that Chicago police intentionally target Black and Latino drivers.

  The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, alleges that the police department has a policy and practice of targeting Black and Latino drivers simply for driving while Black or Brown, as well as requiring officers to satisfy traffic stop quotas and flood predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods on the South and West sides with traffic stops for alleged minor equipment and registration violations. The lawsuit also alleges this “mass traffic stop program” has an unjustified disparate effect on Black and Latino drivers.

  This “mass traffic stop program” likely arises from decisions by the police department and city officials to use traffic stops supposedly as an effort to fight crime. But the lawsuit contends it doesn’t work. No contraband, including illegal guns or drugs turn up in more than 99% of traffic stops in Chicago.. These stops do not make our communities safer or more secure.

Yawn. As predicted here for almost twenty years, the "Blue Cards" study was going to be used to paint police in a bad light. Never mind that no one can find any incidents of racial profiling in millions of stops, this moron and the ACLU are going to claim traffic stops for actual minor equipment and registration violations (all legit violations of the Law), are somehow racial....as if black and brown people don't know how to maintain a car to be street legal. Little racist on the ACLU's part? And if the stop doesn't rise to the level of a search (or consent) for contraband, then searches aren't performed and therefore nothing is found. 

You know what isn't covered in this "editorial" screed? The race of the officers performing the stop. Not even once. Did you know if you have the driver's name you can run the TSSS card in the database and the officer's name(s) appear there. And another quick search gives you the officers' biological info. Guess what? No really, guess what? 

Got it in one, didn't you? Chances of "racial profiling" are exactly ZERO.

You can really tell Mope-rah is still calling some shots over on the Op-Ed page with this claptrap. 

UPDATE: Is this the author?  Same name. Seems to have a criminal record.