An eyebrow-raising proposal to remove police from enforcing traffic safety laws in Los Angeles remains stalled in the city’s bureaucracy – but is still being planned by city leaders.

The progressive proposal in a city where car crashes kill more people than homicides was first hatched in 2020 after the cries of police brutality and racial injustice that led to nationwide rioting after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

It has moved forward in “sluggish fits and starts” ever since, according to a report in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times.

Proponents say traffic enforcement could be done by unarmed civilian workers, instead of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), a proposal that was bolstered by a 2023 study commissioned by the city.

However, the study found it would only be

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