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Kuna mambo yanafanyika leo ukiyafuatilia yalipoanzia utashangaa sana. Sisi tumekuwa tumewawakuta trafiki polisi barabarani na sare zao nyeupe hata wakati barabara zilipokuwa za vumbi na vumbi la mahali kama Singida na Dodoma.
Kumbe polisi mmoja wa Marekani tena Mmarekani mweusi akiitwa William West ndiye aliyeanzisha hii kamatakamata tunayoiona leo 1872. Mtuhumiwa wake akiwa rais wa 18 wa Marekani Ulysses S. Grant. Na shughuli ilikuwa kama hivi:
A Brief History of the Traffic Stop (Or How the Car Created the Police State)
The story of the traffic stop shows the way the automobile fundamentally changed the relationship between the police and the citizenry
By Josh Keefe • 07/26/16 1:30pm
The first modern traffic stop of any note occurred in Washington D.C. in 1872. William West, a black policeman, arrested Ulysses S. Grant, the sitting President of the United States, for driving his horse carriage too fast down 13th Street. Officer West had warned the president for racing down the street the day before, and President Grant promised he would drive his carriage slower in future. When West saw the president on the same street the next day, again racing friends, he stopped his carriage and placed him under arrest
WEST (TRAFFIC OFFICER) I cautioned you yesterday, Mr. President,about fast driving, and you said, sir that it would not occur again.Did I?
MR. PRESIDENT ( mused Grant, still with a quizzical smile on his features) Well, I suppose I forgot it, and that I might have been going a little bit too fast this evening: but hang it officer, these animals of mine are thoroughbreds, and there is no holding them.
WEST (TRAFFIC OFFICER): I am very sorry, Mr. President to have to do it, for you are the chief of the nation, and I am but a policeman. But duty is duty, sir, and I will have to place you under arrest.
MR. PRESIDENT: All right, where do you wish me to go with you?
WEST (TRAFFIC OFFICER): we must go to the station house.
At the President’s invitation the policeman took a seat in the vehicle and the war hero questioned him about himself and his antecedents.
Grant went to the courthouse and paid a fine of $20. According to West, the two became friends and would meet over the years to talk about their shared love of horses.
If only all police traffic stops produced such goodwill.
Chanzo: The Washington Star of September 27th, 1908
Kumbe mambo hajabadilika sana isipokuwa wa Traffic wa siku hizi kweli wanaweza kumakamata JPM?
Kumbe polisi mmoja wa Marekani tena Mmarekani mweusi akiitwa William West ndiye aliyeanzisha hii kamatakamata tunayoiona leo 1872. Mtuhumiwa wake akiwa rais wa 18 wa Marekani Ulysses S. Grant. Na shughuli ilikuwa kama hivi:
A Brief History of the Traffic Stop (Or How the Car Created the Police State)
The story of the traffic stop shows the way the automobile fundamentally changed the relationship between the police and the citizenry
By Josh Keefe • 07/26/16 1:30pm
The first modern traffic stop of any note occurred in Washington D.C. in 1872. William West, a black policeman, arrested Ulysses S. Grant, the sitting President of the United States, for driving his horse carriage too fast down 13th Street. Officer West had warned the president for racing down the street the day before, and President Grant promised he would drive his carriage slower in future. When West saw the president on the same street the next day, again racing friends, he stopped his carriage and placed him under arrest
WEST (TRAFFIC OFFICER) I cautioned you yesterday, Mr. President,about fast driving, and you said, sir that it would not occur again.Did I?
MR. PRESIDENT ( mused Grant, still with a quizzical smile on his features) Well, I suppose I forgot it, and that I might have been going a little bit too fast this evening: but hang it officer, these animals of mine are thoroughbreds, and there is no holding them.
WEST (TRAFFIC OFFICER): I am very sorry, Mr. President to have to do it, for you are the chief of the nation, and I am but a policeman. But duty is duty, sir, and I will have to place you under arrest.
MR. PRESIDENT: All right, where do you wish me to go with you?
WEST (TRAFFIC OFFICER): we must go to the station house.
At the President’s invitation the policeman took a seat in the vehicle and the war hero questioned him about himself and his antecedents.
Grant went to the courthouse and paid a fine of $20. According to West, the two became friends and would meet over the years to talk about their shared love of horses.
If only all police traffic stops produced such goodwill.
Chanzo: The Washington Star of September 27th, 1908
Kumbe mambo hajabadilika sana isipokuwa wa Traffic wa siku hizi kweli wanaweza kumakamata JPM?
