They say the stops encourage racial profiling and disproportionately affect poor communities.
Activists are urging councilmembers to end the practice, which they say encourages racial profiling and disproportionately affects poor communities.The Los Angeles City Council is considering a wide-ranging motion addressing so-called "pretextual'' traffic stops by police.
"It has been four years since this motion was introduced. It's been a lot of work to keep pushing it forward ... to work with them, and so we've done all the work on the outside to answer all the questions, do the research," said Leslie Johnson with Community Coalition. The report also asks for all oversight protocols law enforcement officers are required to follow at all stages before, during, or after a traffic stop and a list of all traffic safety reasons why law enforcement would currently pull someone over."All these kinds of things are just ugliness that we don't need, and our people don't need to live with any longer," said Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who represents the city's 8th District.
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