{"id":48134,"date":"2021-04-17T08:34:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=48134"},"modified":"2021-04-19T04:00:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T09:00:52","slug":"nyt-why-police-can-stop-motorists-with-air-fresheners-hanging-in-their-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=48134","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Why Police Can Stop Motorists With Air Fresheners Hanging in Their Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/17\/us\/police-air-fresheners.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">Why Police Can Stop Motorists With Air Fresheners Hanging in Their Cars<\/a> by Mike Baker and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs (\u201cIn a majority of states it is illegal to hang anything from a rearview mirror that obscures a driver\u2019s view. Critics say the laws are often used as pretexts.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politico: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/04\/17\/how-the-supreme-court-helped-create-driving-while-black-482530\">How the Supreme Court Helped Create &#8216;Driving While Black&#8217;<\/a> By Christopher Wright Durocher:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Traffic stops figure prominently in some of the most high-profile police killings of Black people. We remember many of their names\u2014Walter Scott, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile \u2014but they are just a few of the many people who have been killed or died as the result of law enforcement\u2019s expansive authority to enforce traffic laws.<\/p><p>Traffic stops might seem like a local matter, or a subjective police decision, but actually the practice is built on five decades of Supreme Court precedent, a set of decisions that has successively opened the door to \u2014 and given police an incentive to \u2014 use traffic stops as an invasive tool of policing aimed mostly at people of color, primarily Black people.<\/p><p>As a result, reckoning with police violence must include a reckoning with how U.S. Supreme Court precedent has enabled it through its decades-long campaign to empower law enforcement in the so-called War on Drugs. Litigators must continue to push the Court to revisit these damaging decisions with the goal of overturning or weakening the precedents that have put too much power and discretion in the hands of police. Federal, state, and local policymakers, meanwhile, must recognize that these precedents provide a constitutional floor for police behavior; laws and policies can and should be adopted to hold police to a higher standard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: Why Police Can Stop Motorists With Air Fresheners Hanging in Their Cars by Mike Baker and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs (\u201cIn a majority of states it is illegal to hang anything from a rearview mirror that obscures a driver\u2019s view. Critics &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=48134\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48150,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48134\/revisions\/48150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}