My takeaway from the most recent scary, terrible thing to happen during a traffic stop is the same as it's always been.

There's no good reason to have 90% of traffic stops in a world where the police can run your tags and text a ticket to the owner of the car.

Traffic stops make police officers nervous, because they're constantly told that they could be shot at any moment.

And they make citizens nervous, for kind of the same reason.

Of course police should stop people who are driving dangerously, and, yes, of course they should do it when the plate appears to be missing.

But if traffic stops are so dangerous for police officers that they are immediately pulling their firearms, we should lessen that danger

And if it's not actually all that dangerous, and a lot of the talk about danger is really just a pretext to do a lot of warrantless searches?

An even better reason to limit the practice as much as we can.