• krakenx@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Everyone wants a car that blends in so that they are less of a target for cops.

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      4 days ago

      That’s apparently apocryphal. The rate of pullover tracks with the most common car color (currently white). Driver behavior (speeding, illegal turning, etc) and other outstanding features (lapsed registration, broken tail light) are the most common proximate causes for a pull over.

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        It should be a concern for literally anyone in America right now. Unless you’re white and actively licking boots, you’re a target.

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          I’m white and OP has hella privilege if they’ve never been concerned about cops targeting them. They were all over my ass in the 90s for having long hair and driving beaters. They’d lock on and follow until they had an excuse.

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      Not me! I’ll take a flashy sports car over a boring beige box any day of the week.

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      Oh, that’d be an interesting study I’d read about! Any sociology majors out there who need a thesis? lol