IMO, the goal of stopping a sideshow should be to stop the sideshow. The goal of a pretextual stop is something other than the stated reason for the stop. I'm OK with police stopping folks for breaking traffic laws, if that's their actual reason.
The point I'm trying to make is that pretextual stops have targeted black people more than others in SF. They aren't a precise or particularly effective tool. And they feed distrust, which makes it harder to solve crimes and hold those responsible accountable.
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My point is that much of police activity is pretextual. But critics of tend to only bemoan pretextual activity when it’s convenient for them to do so. In this case, the DA, a critic of it, actually criticized the police for NOT engaging in pretextual activity.
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That same DA is a critic of over-enforcement of quality-of-life, low-level, and nuisance crimes, but in this case he criticized the police for not enforcing those laws, regardless of whether the 1 police car there would have even been capable of managing a crowd that size.
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