Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
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Re: Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
#2“encounters with the police, especially for people of color.”
Huh? How is enforcing people not dart out into streets and hit by cars racist or biased?
Re: Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
#3“encounters with the police, especially for people of color.” Huh? How is enforcing people not dart out into streets and hit by cars racist or biased?
Re: Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
#4“encounters with the police, especially for people of color.” Huh? How is enforcing people not dart out into streets and hit by cars racist or biased?
I assume because of selective enforcement. The more that we make normal everyday events technically illegal, the more likely the police will have to pick and choose what they enforce and what they let slide. Then you have ample opportunity for that discretion to be applied in a discriminatory way.
Re: Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
#5“encounters with the police, especially for people of color.” Huh? How is enforcing people not dart out into streets and hit by cars racist or biased?
Selective enforcement?
Re: Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
#6“encounters with the police, especially for people of color.” Huh? How is enforcing people not dart out into streets and hit by cars racist or biased?
It’s a minor crime which people of color tend to be disproportionately cited for.
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#7“encounters with the police, especially for people of color.” Huh? How is enforcing people not dart out into streets and hit by cars racist or biased?
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#8“encounters with the police, especially for people of color.” Huh? How is enforcing people not dart out into streets and hit by cars racist or biased?
Creating laws that almost everyone breaks and then enforcing them selectively is a great way to hide bias and racism.
Edit: See also - loitering.
Re: Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
#9“encounters with the police, especially for people of color.” Huh? How is enforcing people not dart out into streets and hit by cars racist or biased?
I assume because of selective enforcement. The more that we make normal everyday events technically illegal, the more likely the police will have to pick and choose what they enforce and what they let slide. Then you have ample opportunity for that discretion to be applied in a discriminatory way.
Sure, but why make a specific point about that with jaywalking? Can't that argument be made for just about any crime? Just seems like a useless red herring to make it about race when it doesn't need to be; it's a related but separate issue to whether jaywalking should be a crime in the first place.
Re: Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
#10Can someone paste the content, I get "this site is not available in your country"?