The city of Berkeley is considering a proposal to shift traffic enforcement from armed police to unarmed city workers.
three days after being stopped for failing to signal when changing lanes in Texas in 2015.
“It’s been an incredible cry from the community to look at law enforcement, to look at the role of police in this country and in this city and calling on us, especially as a very progressive city, to lead the way and [try] some new things, pushing the edge when we can,” said Rigel Robinson, a Berkeley City Council member who is pushing the proposal.Whites make up 54% of the Berkeley’s population with Asians at 20%, Latinos at 11% and African Americans at 8%.
If approved Tuesday night, the proposal before the council would change nothing right away. Instead, it calls on the city manager to convene a “community engagement process” to pursue the creation of a separate Berkeley transportation department to handle transportation projects as well as enforcement of parking and traffic.
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