KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Just weeks after a new Missouri law peeled back certain consequences linked to traffic violations, law enforcement is sounding the alarm.
“If we keep clawing back the accountability and we don’t stand up and say right is right and wrong is wrong and if you do wrong there are consequences for those actions where do we go as a society,” Chief Adam Dustman of the Independence Police Department said.
Dustman is questioning the bill’s sponsor over the concern in regard to the recourse municipalities have when enforcing traffic tickets.
Because for most of us when we see those lights flashing behind us, flashing, no doubt there is some level of fear, what have I done?
That is the very essence of this conversation because that could be going away.
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Part of Senate Bill 754 reads: “This act provides that no court shall issue a warrant of arrest for a person’s failure to respond, pay the fine assessed, or appear in court with respect to a traffic violation issued for an infraction.”