I just learned that the LAPD has a director of constitutional policing and policy and that LAPD policy is to no longer pull over drivers with cracked windshields, broken taillights and expired registration.

Officers Jason Goode and Michael Babel said they now rarely make stops for minor violations such as cracked windshields, broken taillights and expired registration.

 “We don’t do those anymore because it’s not a public safety issue,” Babel said during a recent patrol shift in the city’s West Valley division. “It’s in the vehicle code, and we can’t enforce it. That’s the weird thing — it’s so odd.”

In 2019, after The Times reported on stark racial disparities in traffic stops made by the LAPD’s Metropolitan Division units, Mayor Eric Garcetti ordered the department to scale back on vehicle stops. LAPD officials eventually acknowledged the strategy of flooding high-crime areas with the units and setting them loose to make pretext stops had been ineffective.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-14/minor-traffic-stops-plummet-in-months-after-lapd-policy-change