A World Without the Traffic Cop

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Today, more than 40 American cities have embraced it, promoting their efforts with the "three Es" of street safety: engineering, education, and enforcement.
54% : In 1925, Los Angeles launched an experiment in enforcement.
53% : In fact, before cars, ordinary citizens rarely came in contact with law enforcement.
52% : City governments, once reluctant to invest in law enforcement, changed course as cars were widely adopted in the 1910s.
51% : His Twitter thread laid out his argument for transforming law enforcement by transforming city streets: "I prefer license plate cameras ... and mailed tickets over: 'ok make sure nobody does anything that justifies this cop pumping 4 rounds of lead into me.'
48% : Suddenly, law enforcement had unprecedented entry into our private lives--all an officer needed was a missing license plate or a broken taillight.
47% : In the summer of 2020, cities across America made similar commitments: to curtail the use of force, shrink police budgets, and fund fleets of civilian officers.

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