More Fun from Missouri ...

[Riptide]

New state legislation unveiled Tuesday would expand the current process of data collection that police officers in Missouri are required to follow during traffic stops to include not just race, but also “perceived” sexual orientation, as well as religion, “disability” and “English language proficiency.”

'Driving while gay'? Proposal would have Missouri cops try to gather that info, too : News

 

[Vombatus]

"Shoot first, ask questions later" sounds a whole lot better than this cockamamie idea.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

When Vombatus can see five weirdos in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, he shoots the bastards. That's his policy.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

When Vombatus can see five weirdos in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, he shoots the bastards. That's his policy.

Only the good ones.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Even knows gays are all fabulous drivers.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Jeeze. Missouri and Kansas. It's got to be hard to be bigger idiots than Alabama.

 

[Football_Bat]

Just a way to get at Michael Sam twice.

 

[YankeeFan]

Jeeze. Missouri and Kansas. It's got to be hard to be bigger idiots than Alabama.

Did you read the article?

The law is supported by the local ACLU, and has bi-partisan sponsorship.

It's designed to prevent police profiling. This is liberalism come to life.

Police departments in Missouri that continually engage in racial profiling could be stripped of their certification under legislation introduced in Jefferson City on Tuesday.

The “Fair and Impartial Policing Act,” sponsored by state Rep. Shamed Dogan, R-Ballwin, and state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis, would be the first significant update to the state’s anti-racial profiling law, which originally passed in 2000. In addition to tightening enforcement for failure to collect data, the new law also requires departments to document pedestrian as well as traffic stops and expands the information collected during the stops.

"This is not an attack on law enforcement," said Nasheed, who has been one of the leading voices for police reform and racial issues since the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown. "This bill will weed out the bad cops for the betterment of our community and law enforcement alike."

As drafted, the Fair and Impartial Policing Act requires yearly reviews of data at the department and individual officer level. Officers who are found to be engaging in racially motivated policing would be removed from duty and have to undergo additional training before returning to the streets. Departments would also be required to establish community/law enforcement partnerships and offer yearly training around implicit bias and the civil rights movement.

Nasheed, Dogan propose major overhaul of state traffic stop data

 

[YankeeFan]

The Missouri legislative session begins on Wednesday. Jeffrey Mittman, executive director of the ACLU of Missouri, said he was "very optimistic" the bill would be fairly considered.

Missouri lawmakers propose racial bias training for police

 

[YankeeFan]

 

[Ace]

So we don't really care if the driver is gay, Muslim or perhaps an illegal immigrant. We want to know if the cops are stopping those folks more often.

I can see that. Though I can see the cops writing, "these plaid-wearing dykes are straight" on the citation to get around it.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I don't care who proposed it or supports it, it's ****ing idiotic. Good intentions, trying to monitor how the police work their stops, yeah, okay, but eyeballing to judge Jewishness or sexual orientation? Yeah, sometimes you have a pretty good idea - but it's still a bad law.

 

[YankeeFan]

 

[MisterCreosote]

Good thing we have a "right to privacy" in this country. Amirite?

 

[Ace]

Good thing we have a "right to privacy" in this country. Amirite?

I don't think this invades privacy. It would require the cops to list their impressions of the people they stop.

But that would involved the cops having gaydar and being honest, that they are stopping all minorities or something.

Sounds like a good idea but a bad law.

 

[bigpern23]

Terrible law. Not even really a good idea. Good intent, maybe, but this is idiotic. If a cop asks me if I'm straight or gay or what my religion is, my answer is "None of your damn business."

 

[TeamBud]

The obvious answer is not to leave it up to the cops. Hire trained evaluators to ride along in every patrol car. They can be trained and rated on how good their gayday, gen-dar and god-dar are at evaluating sexual orientation, gender identification, and religion.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Why not include sexual orientation on driver's licenses and state issued ID cards so they don't have to ask or guess?

 

[bigpern23]

Why not include sexual orientation on driver's licenses and state issued ID cards so they don't have to ask or guess?

Screw it, let's just tattoo it next to their state-issued ID number on their forearms!

 

[Jake_Taylor]

And maybe there is a way to indicate what religion a person is. Like if you are Jewish maybe there is a symbol you could wear.