Since blacks are more likely to murder blacks, perhaps the laws against murder should be erased in the name of equity?!
<< Black cyclists were four times as likely to be stopped as whites >>
I’m guessing they were also far more likely not to wear one.
Ridiculous racial angle aside, I’ve never been a fan of helmet laws.
“black cyclists were almost four times as likely to receive a citation for violating the helmet rule as white cyclists”
This is unconscionable. Whites are going to have to step up and shoulder their fair share of crimes.
Black cyclists were four times as likely to be . . . carrying controlled substances to their customers. There. That fixes that problem.
“...black cyclists were almost four times as likely to receive a citation for violating the helmet rule as white cyclists...”
Are they saying that black cyclists without helmets get tickets and white cyclists without helmets don’t???
Or are they saying that four times MORE black cyclist ride without helmets than do white cyclists???
It couldn’t have anything to do with being smart enough to wear a helmet.
It was not enforced disproportionately. It was enforced against the OFFENDERS, who are mostly highly privileged members of preferred minority groups.
Mandated vaccines, a violation of personal autonomy, are meant to protect the general public from the high cost of ventilators.
If they can willy nilly get rid of helmet laws why not vaccine mandates as well?
But that assumes that our dear leaders are not hypocritical totalitarians.
Despite what affirmative-action government bureaucrat racists say, traffic laws are not enforced disproportionately, they are broken disproportionately.
https://anncoulter.com/2014/09/03/speed-kills-racial-profiling-study/
Maybe the reason black cyclists were cited four times as much as whites for not wearing a helmet is because they were four times as likely not to wear a helmet. Maybe white cyclists (who tend to be middle-class and up) - are more safety conscious than young, macho blacks.
Socialists continue to pander to their base -- black criminals.
LOL - black people don’t follow a law, so let’s drop it! I guess we don’t need it anyway!
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.
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.
I’d like to ask Seattle why they had been so incredibly racist, all these years, until today?
What does a bike helmet law have to do with race?
I thought helmet laws were about safety.
I bet they stopped all the hot white chicks too.
The soft racism of low expectations, Volume MMXXII.
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?