Daily News | Philly court tosses police union lawsuit over driving equality law
Councilmember Isaiah Thomas speaks during a news conference earlier this month about his "driving equality" legislation.A Philadelphia judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the city’s police union that challenged a law banning some low-level traffic stops.filed the suit more than a year ago,
Common Pleas Court Judge Craig Levin ruled that how and when police carry out minor traffic stops are “matters of purely local concern” and that the mayor has discretion to decide how laws are enforced in the city.such as driving with a damaged bumper or a broken headlight, as “secondary,” meaning they couldn’t be the sole reason a driver was pulled over by police.Philadelphia was the first major city to enact such a ban.
Stops associated with the targeted violations dropped by 54%, or nearly 16,000, between 2021 and 2022, according to Councilmember Isaiah Thomas, the bill’s author. Butracial disparities associated with those stops were unchanged since the law’s implementation.
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