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Two were tooling around Dorchester with loaded guns until they ignored a 'No Turn on Red' sign, police say
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BPD is pulling over people
BPD is pulling over people who make a right on red when it’s prohibited? Are they going to start pulling over drivers who run red lights and stop signs, speed, use their phone and drive, etc too or is this just something they do in black neighborhoods as a way to search people.
They arrested a gun dipshit
At best, heroes. At worst, Kyle Rittenhouse (who also lucked out, in that the outcome of his dubious actions was the death of a convicted pedo) with badges.
I'm not Johnny Cop, even less so after watching some state pig scream at some poor motorist outside Terminal C last week, but I'm thoroughly satisfied with this outcome. Two more tools of death and nothing else for the incinerator (er, the guns, not the people). My pity for the arrestee stops at getting pulled over for No Turn on Red with no one else on the road.
Blah blah blah Breaking Bad blah blah blah Gus Fring ran a red with guns he wasn't legally allowed to possess in his car? Me neither.
Exactly
Seems to be pretty selective enforcement, if the number of drivers taking over the bike lanes on the greenway is any indicaiton.
This is incredible
Someone being pulled over for turning on a "no turn on red" sign.
(Imagine if BPD did … more of that.)
Seriously
Hope they bought lottery tickets, it was their lucky day.
I have to believe
In all these cases, that the cops were onto these guys and just waiting for them to give a pretext...it strains the imagination that a traffic law is being enforced just on a whim.
FWIW
Short of increasing the number of cops, I think focusing on people with guns is more valuable overall than traffic laws like this.
Don't get me wrong, people should obey the signs and drive responsibility. I get mad as hell when some jackass driver knows there's no recourse.
I'd be fine with hiring 100 more cops who solely focus on traffic laws but not everyone wants to see more police, especially those who are specifically going after people for "minor" infractions. (Hence why I'm so supportive of traffic cameras )
Gun deaths versus shitty driving deaths
More people are killed by drivers ignoring lights, signs, crosswalks and speeding than have died in gun violence in recent years.
I don't think they are competing priorities. Both are important.
Not exactly true
According to city data, there have been 16 traffic related fatalities in 2023 and 2024 (YTD)
There have been 36 homicides in the same time period according to the UHub data tracker, about 26 of them due to a gun.
Automated traffic enforcement is far more effective than just assigning a few more cops to traffic duty. (Which I wouldn't opposed either.) The fact Mass makes it impossible to use automatic traffic enforcement is a huge failure of policy.
Than it would be overzealous
Than it would be overzealous policing of minorities. Real smart. Just like shot spotter, our cities minority communities need less racist cops!
They also need
Fewer gun dipshits inhabiting them.
If this guy doesn't get pinched today, that gun gets used to blow off the head of someone peacefully sitting on their porch tomorrow. Again.
The Ruger SR9C
The Ruger SR9C is actually a dangerous gun. Ruger recalled it because with one round in the chamber and the safety off it tends to discharge if dropped. One of these guys was carrying it around with one in the chamber, He could have shot a cop completely by accident if his gun fell. Good riddance.
You precede
"Dangerous gun" with "actually", like that's a surprise.
Guns are tools. I'm one of
Guns are tools. I'm one of the "gun dipshits" running around. Although I limit myself to rifles for target shooting not self defense.
I say it every time
although Adam rarely posts the comments...
If you're going to drive around with guns, drugs, a body in the trunk...
don't call attention to yourself.
Don't drive around in a car that screams PULL ME OVER, don't break traffic laws, don't give the cops the pretext to pull you over.
Real wiseguys fly under the radar. Hood gangbangers are amateurs.
Don't need to be a gangster to have a gun
Ever Tom, Larry, and Sue in this country has guns now.
Like the need to buy a ford F-150 Pickup truck to go to the grocery store, you don't need to be a gangster or a farmer to own a handgun or a pickup truck respectively. These are now just normal things American citizen carry around these days. God save us all.