Unarmed city workers will conduct traffic stops in a California city, replacing police officers, under a new plan approved this week.
The Berkeley City Council’s vote directed the city manager and city officials to “reimagine public safety” and pursue the creation of a new Department of Transportation “to ensure a racial justice lens in traffic enforcement and the development of transportation policy, programs, & infrastructure,” according to a copy of the council’s agenda.
The goal is “to reduce and/or eliminate the practice of pretextual stops based on minor traffic violations.”
Original Source: By ZACHARY STIEBER The Epoch Times
