{"id":3411,"date":"2006-11-07T02:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:11:57","slug":"power-to-the-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/power-to-the-prosecutors\/","title":{"rendered":"Power to the Prosecutors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not exactly, but &#8220;backers&#8221; want to give police more excuses to stop people in cars: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/columnists.nsf\/alongfortheride\/story\/6A0960C8D9AAB0FB8625721E000675C8?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Missouri wants what Illinois has: a tougher seat belt law<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Backers of a tougher seat belt law in Missouri are holding a pep rally next week to get psyched up for the upcoming legislative battle in Jefferson City. They&#8217;re about to take another crack at a primary seat belt law.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Missouri can write a ticket for not wearing a seat belt only if the motorist was pulled over for another violation. A primary seat belt law, which has failed in the legislature every year since 2000, gives police authority to pull people over solely for not buckling up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a former young man who rode in motor vehicles, I understand this really isn&#8217;t about giving police a pretext to stop you and check your story, since they&#8217;ll do that for license plate light infractions that aren&#8217;t, wow, look at that, infractious.  This will, however, give them a reason to stop people and part them from some of their money.<\/p>\n<p>To save a projected 90 lives a year.  But that&#8217;s projected, whereas the loss of freedom and the loss of citizens&#8217; money, will be real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not exactly, but &#8220;backers&#8221; want to give police more excuses to stop people in cars: Missouri wants what Illinois has: a tougher seat belt law: Backers of a tougher seat belt law in Missouri are holding a pep rally next week to get psyched up for the upcoming legislative battle in Jefferson City. They&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18471,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions\/18471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}