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This victim was driving on a suspended license, clocked going 67 in a 45 zone and the warrant was for failure to appear. I watched all 3 videos and the officer was professional and particularly respectful of Ms. Perry.
The officers did what they were instructed to do. The instructions should have never happened. File a lien on her property. If she has none attach her wages. If she has no wages you aren't going to get the money anyway.
But the city will spend $2500 (I have no idea what the actual costs will be) to go after $300 in fines.
$2500? Somebody with the state's attorney's office filed a warranty request, a judge approved it, the warrant was put out on the wire. Lady gets pulled over, is arrested and take to the station, where she posts a bond equal to the amount of the outstanding fines, and everyone goes on their way. It cost almost nothing.
A property lien is (and should be) much farther down the line of potential remedies. Imagine the outrage this lady would have exhibited had somebody tried to take her home or other property over unpaid parking fines!!!!
Almost exact same thing happened to a friend of mine who happened to be a white, heterosexual male (supposedly the "privileged" class). An interesting car had come in on trade at the dealership we worked at. Curious to see how it drove, he hopped in to take it for a short spin around the block. He lazily opted not to put a dealer plate on it. Lo and behold, there's a cop at the intersection who sees him driving without a plate and pulls him over. Cop runs my friend's driver's license, notices his license has been suspended and he has outstanding warrant for an unpaid speeding fine. Next thing I know, he's calling me from his cell phone, asking me to come pick up the the car and bring it back to the dealership because he's been arrested and is being taken to the station. FWIW, he was back at work in less than 90 minutes.
But the city will spend $2500 (I have no idea what the actual costs will be) to go after $300 in fines.
Not just fines, she was also illegally driving on a suspended license. Cities don't spend much going after people with traffic ticket violations - they wait for them to speed past cops while their license is under suspension. How stupid can they be? If I had an outstanding warrant I'd be an extra cautious driver and make sure I didn't have any broken tail lights or other excuse to be pulled over. Nia (formerly Imani) had 4 tickets from different jurisdictions ,a suspended license, and has a pending court case (early March) for driving with a suspended license. The pending suspended license case surely won't go her way now.
But the city will spend $2500 (I have no idea what the actual costs will be) to go after $300 in fines.
I'm all for a city going after someone with unpaid parking tickets. I'm sure there is probably a high correlation between people that don't pay parking tickets or drive on suspended licenses that also don't pay their insurance in a timely manner, or pay it at all. In that instance the expense of having them as a liability on the road becomes very high to the city and to other drivers or property owners.
Many "cop haters" and racists have been SCREAMING for dash cams and body cams for the police.
It has been pointed out, "be careful what you wish for", that they may not like some of the outcomes.
I think this is because so much of the certain leftist groups that support anti-police brutality protests (especially those which border on just anti-police protests) are comfortable with massive surveillance and oversight from all levels. They like the idea of "accountability" to a degree that they support a world blanketed with cameras and other recording devices.
To be fair, some of the biggest opponents of dash cams and body cams are also anti-brutality police groups (like the ACLU) because they see surveillance as reinsurance regardless of the targets and purposes of that surveillance.
She should not be fired. This is not truly worth firing people over, even with the social media lying. We need to get away from the society of overreacting, and overreacting to her overreaction does not help with that.
She should publicly apologize and admit her wrong. I doubt that will happen, but she has already had an appropriate loss of face and the apology would be just as much for her sake as for the sake of the police officers involved. And whether she apologizes or not, her employer should just stay out of it. Of course, they should have stayed out of it from the very beginning and not tried to interject themselves as a coddling authority trying to shame the police officers and police department on behalf of their employee. These constant appeals to authority for validation of victimhood need to stop. I think Princeton, not the professor, is truly the one in the wrong here for enabling this behavior to essentially fluff up their own importance.
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She's undoubtedly one of a number of people who read over-the-top prejudice and mistreatment into many interactions where it doesn't belong, and have managed to parlay that into a career where they float by on the probability that no one will dare to question their status as a perpetual victim.
Which especially sucks because there are people out there who are horribly mistreated, and crap like this trivializes their experiences or grievances.
I agree that there are real instances of abuse and mistreatment. She should resign.
Not just fines, she was also illegally driving on a suspended license. Cities don't spend much going after people with traffic ticket violations - they wait for them to speed past cops while their license is under suspension. How stupid can they be? If I had an outstanding warrant I'd be an extra cautious driver and make sure I didn't have any broken tail lights or other excuse to be pulled over. Nia (formerly Imani) had 4 tickets from different jurisdictions ,a suspended license, and has a pending court case (early March) for driving with a suspended license. The pending suspended license case surely won't go her way now.
DON'T drive on a suspended license, " they wait for them to speed past" DON'T speed and you probably WON'T be stopped.
As Forest Gump said. "Stupid is as stupid does".
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