Minnesota purchases Not-Reaching Pouches to help reduce deadly force encounters ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

OwMyPopehat Retweeted

Just the Minnesota Department of Safety stepping up to make sure fewer residents are harmed by their fellow public servants.

We recently purchased some Not-Reaching Pouches to help reduce deadly force encounters between law enforcement and citizens during traffic stops. The pouches store a driver’s license, and insurance card in plain sight in the vehicle on an air vent or other visible location.

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Absolutely embarrassing.

[calimary]

3. But also an idea whose time has needed to come.

A sign of these severely mixed-up times.

[Phoenix61]

2. So I'm supposed to take my DL out of my wallet

and put it in that every time I drive my car? Seriously?

[marble falls]

5. Bingo. Make the cops stop shooting motorists, instead.

[hlthe2b]

4. Visible and accessible. So how many cars will be broken into to steal them? How much identity theft

will result? Heaven forbid a motorist leans over to pick it up when the pouch falls off the vent...

[Girard442]

6. Hate this.

What's next? Tattooing your driver's license on your arm?

[Diamond_Dog]

7. What's to stop some macho full of himself cop

From ordering the driver to get out of the car anyway?

This is absurd.

[70sEraVet]

8. They may as well call them "African American Pouches"

Those are the drivers getting shot, and those are the only drivers who will use them.
Maybe the MnDPS could just tell the cops NOT to shoot POC drivers when they're getting the documents that were asked for.

[Mawspam2]

9. It's so sad that anyone thinks this will stop...

...the 'shoot first, plant evidence later' mentality of any police officer. #EndQualifiedImmunity

[dflprincess]

10. Interesting labeling

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I've never once been asked for my registration in Minnesota. Only license and proof of insurance. (I haven't been stopped for years, have things changed?)

Thirty+ years ago my friend & I were on a road trip & she got pulled over in Nevada. The cop asked for registration and we both looked at him in blankly, finally telling him Minnesota didn't require it.

Well the cop took her license and insurance card & I think he may have checked out the story about the registration. When he came back to the car he handed the documents back, then said "If I ever decide to steal a car, I'm doing it in Minnesota." Then let her off with a warning for speeding.

[geardaddy]

11. I would think that having a registration in the car

would make stealing the car easier.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. Your tab is your registration in MN. Other states have them.

[dflprincess]

13. Other states expect you to keep a copy

of the registration in the car even though they also have tabs on the plate. I would assume this is the card the state sends when it's time to renew the tabs.