Which is It?

This is from waaaaay back in April, before we returned from The Hiatus. It's the other commies over at NPR, but it makes one wonder about the sudden resurgence of Slum Times/WBEZ reporting on racial profiling:

• American roads are deadlier than they were before the pandemic and many are looking at changes in police traffic enforcement as a cause.

  Deaths spiked during 2020, and the fatality rate — deaths per million miles traveled — is still about 18% higher now than in 2019.

  "It is, unfortunately, an American phenomenon," says Jonathan Adkins, CEO of the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA). Other Western countries did not see the same sustained increase in traffic deaths, and he thinks one important difference is a pullback in policing, following the George Floyd protests of 2020.

  "Why do many of us drive dangerously on the roads? Because we think we can get away with it. And guess what — we probably can right now in many places in the country," says Adkins. "There's not enforcement out there, they're hesitant to write tickets. And we're seeing the results of that."

And yet somehow, the commies and "progressives" here would have you think the police are out there pulling over all sorts of minorities, going through their cars and turning their lives upside-down.

The number of notifications we see for Traffic Court on a daily basis at Roll Call is a fraction of years ago. Part of it is the traffic cameras. Another part is the "officers will be responsible for their own automated notifications."  

But the other part is so many Officers getting their TSSSSSSSSS cards and who cares about the actual violation? Most cops would rather avoid ever having to use a pen, paper and press through four carbon copies if they can just do a two-sided 4-by-6 card with check boxes on it.