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Driving Equality law marks 1 year, city and civic leaders praise success in improving police relations

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PHILADELPHIA - It’s been one year since a law went into effect in Philadelphia, meant to combat racial profiling and make traffic stops more equitable across the city.

The controversial measure banned traffic stops for minor infractions like bumper issues and driving with missing headlights."If pulling people over made this city safer?

I’d be the first volunteer for my rights to be violated. But, it doesn’t work," Councilman Isaiah Thomas, author of the 2022 bill, stated.Councilman Thomas says traffic stops have never been effective in reducing crime and reducing racial disparities in parkway pullovers is something attorney Nia Holston of the Abolitionist Law Center says was visibly overdue."That these stops can create harm, rather than prevent it is something that we have increasingly witnessed via videos on social media in the last few years," Holston explained. "We can see the names of folks that we know who have seen, who have died, at the hands of these traffic stops."Driving Equality reclassifies eight violations as secondary.

Things like late registration, a broken tail light or a missing inspection sticker, for example. Police can no longer stop a vehicle just for one of those.

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