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Seattle drops bike helmet law because cops unfairly targeted people of color and homeless people: Black cyclists were four times as likely to .....
FOR DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 20 February 2022 | ANDREA CAVALLIER

Posted on 02/20/2022 2:09:17 PM PST by dennisw

Seattle drops bike helmet law because cops unfairly targeted people of color and homeless people: Black cyclists were four times as likely to be stopped as whites The King County Board of Health voted Thursday to repeal its decades-old mandatory helmet rule Data showed the rule was rarely enforced, but enforced disproportionately

Since 2017, Seattle police had given 117 helmet citations, more than 40 percent of which went to people who were homeless Since 2019, 60 percent of citations went to people who were homeless Central Seattle Greenways found that black cyclists were almost four times as likely to receive a citation for violating the helmet rule as white cyclists

Seattle is the largest city in the country to enforce a bike helmet requirement

King County Councilmember Joe McDermott said there are other ways of encouraging helmet use that do not rely on law enforcement, including educational campaigns and free helmet distribution The King County Council recently budgeted more than $200,000 to buy helmets and expand education programs The repeal affects most of King County, including Seattle However, 17 cities in the county, have their own laws mandating helmet use

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: bicycle; helmet; helmetlaws; racism; seattle
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To: dennisw

LOL - black people don’t follow a law, so let’s drop it! I guess we don’t need it anyway!


21 posted on 02/20/2022 2:36:54 PM PST by PGR88
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To: dennisw

60 percent of citations went to people who were homeless
***So writing that ridiculous ticket never really worked as a revenue generator.

Eventually, Seattle is going to learn what some nitpicking revenue generating cities have learned, and that is to fund their building permits commission with ticket writing revenuers. Because when the time comes to sell the house or property, the city has a lien on it. Naturally, they won’t be able to keep it up on the slums which drift into abandonment.

I learned recently when I tried to renew my registration that parking tickets now block your registration of any vehicle. Cops and revenuers have figured out whose blood to suck.


22 posted on 02/20/2022 2:38:00 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immunue from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: dennisw

Does that explain why they allow minorities to kill minorities - they know that a greater percentage do the killing than among Whiteys. They don’t want disproportional arrest rates so they deliberately and intentionally do nothing about the killing. They’re going to blame Whitey anyway.


23 posted on 02/20/2022 2:40:23 PM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: dennisw

I’d like to ask Seattle why they had been so incredibly racist, all these years, until today?


24 posted on 02/20/2022 2:44:35 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: dennisw

What does a bike helmet law have to do with race?
I thought helmet laws were about safety.


25 posted on 02/20/2022 2:48:13 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: dennisw

I bet they stopped all the hot white chicks too.


26 posted on 02/20/2022 2:51:23 PM PST by SaxxonWoods ("If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself." - Minquass)
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To: the_Watchman

Libertarians. They’re against the mandatory wearing of brain buckets.


27 posted on 02/20/2022 2:52:57 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: I want the USA back

“It was not enforced disproportionately. It was enforced against the OFFENDERS, who are mostly highly privileged members of preferred minority groups.”

I worked for the Israeli owned contractor who had the unclassified section of the army’s SINCGARS radio. GD had the classified section. Both companies had taken the bulk of their workforce off the welfare rolls in exchange for free rent. (Horrible deal in my opinion as the workers did not want to work. Most were black.) Both companies stopped enforcing their random drug tests because, as I understand it, none of the black employees passed the test whereas, at that time, all of the white employees had passed. Their lawyers told them that, therefore, the test was racist by definition as it only failed blacks.


28 posted on 02/20/2022 2:54:51 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: dennisw

The soft racism of low expectations, Volume MMXXII.


29 posted on 02/20/2022 2:55:31 PM PST by lee martell
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To: dennisw

In addition to the obvious absurdity, this hurts blacks. They wear helmets less, therefore reminding them to wear helmets saves some of their lives. They want the right to not be protected from brain injuries.

Wouldn’t this also mean they shouldn’t be made to wear seat belts?


30 posted on 02/20/2022 2:59:41 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: SharpRightTurn

I’m your man!!! :)


31 posted on 02/20/2022 3:03:39 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dennisw

This goes on in public schools as follows. More black kids need help with reading etc. The black special education teachers declare they “won’t classify any more black kids” because it’s racist. Therefore the black kids who need help don’t get it.

And in other discussions, the black teachers say the black kids are different and can’t be made to sit still in class, can’t learn the same way, etc.


32 posted on 02/20/2022 3:04:40 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Magnum44

Cause you know why?

The argument that it costs taxpayers money to treat the injured and/or that it destroys lives and families...

...can be applied to eating bad, drinking too much, smoking cigarettes...

Slippery Slopeville


33 posted on 02/20/2022 3:05:08 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dp0622

Not taking the jab...


34 posted on 02/20/2022 3:06:13 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: 21twelve

How ya been? :)


35 posted on 02/20/2022 3:07:37 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: 21twelve

How ya been? :)


36 posted on 02/20/2022 3:07:37 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dennisw

Laws don’t really help stupid people anyway. I’m sure people who can manage their own health will wear the proper gear.


37 posted on 02/20/2022 3:09:13 PM PST by GingisK
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Tell me our leaders are not hypocritical totalitarians! That can't be true!

< /sarcasm>

38 posted on 02/20/2022 3:12:31 PM PST by GingisK
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To: EEGator
Yep, yep, yep. Check and double check.

39 posted on 02/20/2022 3:17:33 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: dennisw

What’s the over/under on the time before some social justice worrier weeps about the disproportionate number of blacks getting concussions from bike wrecks and demand that helmets be required again?


40 posted on 02/20/2022 3:48:02 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Dictatorship: now available in maple flavor.)
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