Minnesota man killed in car during traffic violation for busted tail light.

That Federal program you are talking about ended in 2009 and was not re-authorized.

Section 406 Safety Belt Performance Grants
Purpose

This grant program was created to encourage states to enact and enforce primary seat belt laws, which allow law enforcement officers to ticket a driver for not wearing a seat belt, without any other traffic offense taking place.​

Requirements

States were eligible for this grant if they had an actively enforced primary seat belt law or achieved 85% or higher seat belt usage rate for two consecutive years beginning in FY 2006.


The first $1 million of a state's apportionment was required to be used for behavioral highway safety purposes. The remainder may have been used for any safety infrastructure purpose or for any project that corrected or improved a hazardous roadway location or proactively addressed a safety problem.


Funding

States with primary belt laws enacted after Dec. 31, 2002 received a one-time grant equal to 4.75 times the state's FY 2003 Section 402 apportionment. States with an 85% or higher usage rate for two consecutive years beginning in FY 2006 received a similar one-time apportionment in the last two years of the authorization. States with primary belt laws enacted prior to Dec. 31, 2002 received a one-time grant equal to two times their FY 2003 Section 402 apportionment.


New primary belt law states received their apportionments first, followed by high belt use states, followed by older primary belt law states. Unallocated funding in FY 2009 was able to be reallocated to all eligible primary belt law states. The federal share was 100%.


SAFETEA-LU authorized the Section 406 program at $124.5 million each year.​

 

No recent information is available on the racial breakdown of drivers stopped or ticketed by police in Falcon Heights, the mostly white suburb where the shooting occurred, or in other Minnesota towns. Minnesota is not among the handful of states that require police to keep such data.

But in 2001, the Legislature asked for a racial profiling study and it fell to Kearney, then at the Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School, to conduct it. His study, using information supplied voluntarily by 65 law enforcement jurisdictions in the state, found a strong likelihood that racial and ethnic bias played a role in traffic stop policies and practices. Overall, officers stopped minority drivers at greater rates than whites and searched them at greater rates, but found contraband in those searches at lower rates than whites.

The analysis found the pattern was more pronounced in suburban areas. In Fridley, New Hope, Plymouth, Sauk Rapids and Savage combined, blacks were stopped about 310 percent more often than expected.

The St. Anthony Police Department, which employs the officer who shot Castile, did not participate in the study. St. Anthony officials have not commented on Castile’s stop since shortly after the shooting.

It was not immediately clear how much money governments in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area generate from traffic violations. A U.S. Department of Justice investigation following the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown, a black, unarmed 18-year-old, in Ferguson, Missouri, found law enforcement efforts were focused on generating revenue for that city. Most of the tickets and fines were going to blacks.

Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, a passenger in the car, said the two officers who stopped them said the vehicle had a broken tail light. She said one of the officers shot him “for no apparent reason” after he reached for his ID.

Valerie Castile said she thinks her son “was just black in the wrong place.” Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton said he did not believe it would have happened to a white motorist.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/07/09/philando-stops/

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I bet you wouldn't get hassled if it were a land boat.