Is this good for the city?

[Sarah Perry]

Originally Posted by kjbrill

Is there any confirmation of this other than the posted link? And if it is being done, what is the legal basis behind it, city ordinance, state vehicle safety laws, etc?...

Oversized rims could kill some one, police say

[t45209]

Originally Posted by blowingdown

One cannot incite social unrest, people are uneasy or they aren't. Will this statute lead to unwarranted searches and harassment? I think it will.

Seems to me that there was another thread along here somewhere about I-75 where several posters noted that Ohio was unusually liberal about the vehicles that it allows on the roads compared to other states. Traveling in Germany, I noted the utter lack of any "beater" cars...no rust, no nothing is allowed. If there is something unsafe about these cars, then make them go away.

I shudder to get into a racial profiling debate, but I get tired of the culture of victimization that people use to say they were targeted. It's not 1968 anymore, and there are plenty of good reasons cops can use to pull people over. And yet, I've been pulled over and had the car searched for absolutely no good reason before...but as a white male I can't claim profiling, racism or anything. It just plain sucks to be me, I guess.

Frankly, I think we've made it so hard for cops to do their jobs and follow up on suspicious characters of any ilk, that the advantage goes to the criminal and an innocent victim all too often has to pay the price.