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Berkeley moves toward removing police from traffic stops

by Associated Press
| July 16, 2020 12:03 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After hours of emotional public testimony and a middle-of-the-night vote by Berkeley leaders, the progressive California city is moving forward with a novel proposal to replace police with unarmed civilians during traffic stops in a bid to curtail racial profiling.

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