Seattle police handed out 90 percent less traffic tickets as part of a plan to scrap enforcement — but car-related deaths have spiked to a “crisis level” in the same time period.
Seattle Police handed out 90 percent less traffic tickets as car deaths increased.“Peer agencies are moving away from enforcement as a leading strategy, pointing instead to a safe systems model and designing roads to be ‘self-enforcing,’“ the report states.
Meanwhile, leaders have bemoaned the rise in car fatalities and accidents — though city officials have stopped short of calling for a return to more police enforcement. “I don’t think any of us want police involved in traffic stops,” Seattle City Council member Tammy Morales at a hearing last week.A total of 28 people in Seattle died from traffic deaths last year.However, Seattle Times Columnist Danny Westneat on Wednesday stressed the need for beefed up police enforcement to help curb traffic deaths.Share this article:
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