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Correlation is not causation… ? In what manner does BLM protests affect traffic on a mass scale


Yea I don't know about BLM protests but cops have vanished from enforcing traffic laws where I am.

I would say someone blows a red light at least 50% of the time at a red light.

There might just not be enough cops now though demographically. That would be my guess. The same way there aren't enough nurses.


The protests are a red herring. It's the cops not wanting to be charged with murder so they just make less traffic stops.


I don’t think they were afraid of being charged with murder in the first place. Qualified immunity for police is quite strongly backed.




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