Los Angeles is known for many things: Hollywood, nice weather, earthquakes, and rampant crime and homelessness. It's also notorious for bad traffic, and now the L.A. City Council is poised to make traffic and crime even worse. They just passed a motion to ban most traffic stops in the city.
What could possibly go wrong?
🚨RIGHT NOW: The Woke LA City Council just passed a landmark motion (14-0) to ban police from making traffic stops—becoming the first legislative body in the U.S. to take such a dangerous step. Human, child-sex & narcotics trafficking & drive-by shootings will skyrocket. pic.twitter.com/VBM8xw3Emv
— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) May 7, 2026
Los Angeles City Council just threw its full weight behind a crack down on LAPD’s pretextual stops.
In a unanimous 14-0 vote, lawmakers moved to rein in the traffic stops, a routine tool officers have long used to pull drivers over for minor violations and probe for bigger crimes.
Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who has championed the effort to eliminate the stops since first introducing the motion with former Councilman Mike Bonin in 2020, framed the vote as a moral shift, calling armed responses to minor violations “barbaric” and “wholly uncivilized.”
“This is a big down payment,” he said, signaling more changes ahead. The vote caps six years of City Hall buildup that began in the wake of the George Floyd protests.
The "broken windows" theory of policing has proven effective. Which, of course, is why Democrats hate it. They haven't met a criminal they didn't want to support and turn loose on innocent residents.
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Much like Lord Farquaad in "Shrek," their attitude is "some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice we're willing to make."
🚨The Democrat Party should be abolished.
— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) May 7, 2026
Yes.
City Councils are filled with activists who should not be running anything.
— AAE (@AAC0519) May 7, 2026
That's why local politics is vitally important, and people should pay attention to local races, too. The Left certainly does, which is how they've taken over local governing bodies to ram through their nonsense policies.
This is how the democrats plan to implement communism to allow crime to flourish so they can take over.
— margaret (@Maggiestoneham) May 7, 2026
Yes.
LA: Los Angeles police conducting traffic stops discover motorists are under the influence, carrying illegal firearms, or have outstanding warrants. In fact, almost 25% of black motorist in LA are eligible for arrest. The LA City Council wants to ban traffic stops. https://t.co/ezJxmmbvTr pic.twitter.com/foEXTk3w3e
— @amuse (@amuse) May 7, 2026
Because it's "racist."
The only people who have rights in LA are the bad guys (and these halfwits on the city council) https://t.co/kQypHKybkQ
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) May 7, 2026
Bingo.
Wow if the LA City Council can vote 14-0 to ban traffic stops, what's to stop Denver from doing the same thing?
— Recovering Woke (@dnvr_is_burning) May 7, 2026
Traffic deaths, DUIs, human trafficking, drug trafficking.... and God knows what else, banned https://t.co/6e4TmaGV6W
Think of the rights of the criminals. That's what the L.A. City Council is doing.
The only way this changes is if concerned people get involved in their communities. Pay attention to local elections. Run for office. Remove the politicians who push these garbage proposals and restore sanity to America from the ground up.
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