11-21-2020, 11:22 AM
(11-21-2020, 09:34 AM)lex24 Wrote: No, you can’t just pull people over. Or take pictures of their license plates to issue tickets. There are still exceptions - as doc points out - to the curfew. So the police have no way of knowing if it’s a violation. Further to have that as a policy would be disastrous. We’ve had enough police issues without adding such stops. Further the pushback from those that still believe in liberty would be massive. And, unlike the absurdity over masks, justified.
Of course you can. It's called a pretext stop. Cops make it up all the time. They can also fabricate probable cause to arrest people. Of course, the application of this nonsense falls most heavily on Black or brown people, and impoverished neighborhoods. And the people who "still believe in liberty" don't tend to be too concerned about it.