{"id":57560,"date":"2024-04-09T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57560"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T20:52:12","slug":"techdirt-court-calls-out-bs-driving-while-black-traffic-stops-while-tossing-felony-possession-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57560","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Court Calls Out BS \u2018Driving While Black\u2019 Traffic Stops While Tossing Felony Possession Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2024\/04\/08\/court-calls-out-bs-driving-while-black-traffic-stops-while-tossing-felony-possession-conviction\/\">Court Calls Out BS \u2018Driving While Black\u2019 Traffic Stops While Tossing Felony Possession Conviction<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>While it\u2019s not ultimately a factor in the court\u2019s decision, it\u2019s nice to see a court call out biased policing while discussing the merits of the case. This <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/24528063\/v-carpenter-dwb.pdf\">decision<\/a> [PDF], handed down by an Illinois state appellate court, makes it pretty clear the court believes this stop would never had happened if the driver happened to be white. (via FourthAmendment.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s futile to believe biased policing isn\u2019t the norm in the United States. There\u2019s simply too much data to dispute. In this decision, even more data is presented that makes it clear \u201cdriving while black\u201d (DWB) is considered reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop and, often, a vehicle search by far too many US law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: Court Calls Out BS \u2018Driving While Black\u2019 Traffic Stops While Tossing Felony Possession Conviction by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57560","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=57560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57561,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57560\/revisions\/57561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}