[kingu]

The answer is the feds, really. I've come across this all the time doing Lyft in a rural area, some black family will come out and want their 25 pound kid to ride without a car seat, I'll tell them no, and they say they do it all the time.

I then point out that I'm a white driver and you better believe that every sheriff in the area is eager to issue me a ticket for a child riding without proper restraint, which generally gets through to them.

Ever since race had to be marked down on tickets to measure for some FBI or DOJ study how many tickets are issued to minorities (or majorities, depending on the city), it seems like cops go out of their way to make sure that everything’s balanced up right.

I'm not blaming them for this problem, I'm putting the blame right on the people doing stupid idiotic things like having their kids ride in a car without the proper safety gear. To many of them get tickets for it when there's zillions of programs to provide free seats; they just leave them at home because who's going to give them a ticket for it?

[SamAdams76]

When I was growing up, I used to ride in the back of open pickup trucks all across northern Alabama.

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"It seems like cops go out of their way to make sure that everything’s balanced up right." "I'm not blaming them for this problem."

Why not..?? Strength of character and a set of stones of the proper size is the requirement for the job...

Equal justice under the law is a real bitch for some, but it's the only thing that will work in a free nation.... Other wise, it ain't free...It's corrupt.!

MHO.......