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To: Sully- who wrote (171)	5/25/2004 5:22:34 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Black people should be exempt from obeying the law Liberal Media Blog As I mentioned here last week, the Seattle City Council was considering an end to the practice of impounding the cars of drivers caught with a suspended license -- on the grounds that a disproportionate number of African-Americans were having their cars impounded. The City Council voted 6-2 yesterday to stop impounding vehicles of people whose licenses were suspended for various reasons. Today's Seattle Times report is just as biased as the City Council vote. "City Council votes to dump unpopular impound law" Unpopular with whom other than those who want to be exempt from traffic laws? The article doesn't say. The majority [on the Counci] argued that the law had to go because of a disproportionate impact on poor people and African Americans. "The solution (impound law) we have now is not working," said Councilman Richard Conlin. "We're still seeing disproportionate impact. We need a creative new tool." The article acknowledges that ending impoundment would allow drivers whose licenses were suspended for "violations such as speeding and failing to obey traffic signals" to keep driving, and that such drivers are "2.5 times more likely to get in auto accidents than drivers who hadn't lost their driving privileges". So in spite of Richard Conlin's dippy protestations to the contrary, the impound law seems to be working quite well -- thousands of incompetent drivers have been kept off the roads. Lives and limbs have been saved. As I mentioned in the earlier post, there is absolutely no evidence that the impoundment is racist in either intent or implementation, only in outcome. Nevertheless, the Seattle Times propagates without challenge the City Council's beliefs that this difference in outcomes is attributable to racism and that public safety should take a backseat to avoiding disparate outcomes in law enforcement. thatliberalmedia.com

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