Posted on 04/15/2017 8:47:50 AM PDT by Mariner
Sacramento police issued 233 tickets for jaywalking last year in the police district that includes North Sacramento and Del Paso Heights – nearly triple the number handed out in the entire rest of the city.
Black people received 111 of those citations, nearly 50 percent, but account for about 15 percent of the area’s residents.
The equivalent of 12 citations were issued to every 1,000 black residents in District 2 last year, more than 5 times the issuance rate for non-blacks, city and census figures show.
The citation numbers, released in response to a request by The Bee, drew outrage from public officials and community members concerned that residents of the largely black and Latino area are unfairly targeted by law enforcement.
“It’s absurd and it’s something that has to be looked at,” said Councilman Allen Warren, who represents the area where the citations were issued. “That is why there is such concern and anger within District 2, because they are being stopped disproportionately and with no reason.”
On Monday, a jaywalking case in Del Paso Heights made headlines when Nandi Cain, 24, was stopped and repeatedly punched by an officer after allegedly walking illegally across Grand Avenue near Cypress Street on his way home from work. Cain questioned the officer over the reasonableness of the jaywalking allegation and initially walked away as the officer ordered him to stop. Video of the event shot by a bystander went viral by Monday night, prompting the department to release further dashcam video that showed the officer punching Cain about 18 times.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
I’ve seen this as a sort of cultural “control” thing. I’ve seen a black man walk down the sidewalk at — let’s say — three miles an hour. He then steps into the street, at about — ohhh — three miles an hour.
And
Then
He
slowly
walks
across
while
glaring
at
the
drivers
The Gentle Giant Walk.
“Yeah, I might not be going anywhere in life, but I see YOU DO have to get somewhere, and now I can show you how easily and extravagantly I can slow you down..”
Of course the typical "journalist" of today is innumerate (lacking basic knowledge of mathematics, for any "journalists" who may be reading this), so of course it never occurred to the incurious writers of the article to ask the question, "what percentage of jaywalkers in that area are 'black people'?".
What if 90% of jaywalkers in that area were 'black people' but only about half of the citations were given to 'black people'? Would these same "journalists" then be speculating that the police were biased against 'non-black people'? Of course not. These "journalists" write their fiction based on prejudicial narratives, which is to say that they, like many or most "journalists" these days, intentionally write falsehoods (that's a polite say of saying that they write deliberate lies, for the sake of any "journalists" who may be reading this).
Naturally, with the apparent low level of curiosity, education, and native intellect of "journalists" such as Anita Chabria, Nashelly Chavez and Phillip Reese, one would expect to see exactly the poor quality of work and left-wing political bias that is so clearly on display here and elsewhere in The Sacremento Bee.
That said, the high fines for jaywalking are an outrage, and the government idiots who instituted those outrageous fines ought to be raked over the coals (too bad we no longer have 'stocks' where outraged citizens can pelt government idiots and government criminals with rotten eggs and rotten tomatoes, in order to encourage them to act more wisely in the future).
sooo what are we supposed to do? Allow black folks to break the law with impunity because we’re afraid of profiling? Are we a nation of laws or not?
This doesn’t surprise me one bit.
I am a reservation agent for taxi companies from Washington DC to San Diego and I work the graveyard (bar) shift. I took 33,000 calls from passengers last year.
These cats rarely know where they are. When you ask for an actual address, they will either tell you to wait while they figure it out, or call you a b*tch because you can’t see through the computer screen to figure it out. They have NO responsibility to provide their location to you. That is the good news.
The bad news is that my drivers get to be surprised over whether or not they will be paid for the trip. It’s a crap shoot.
Which might be why so many are walking and jaywalking.
On several occasions in San Francisco I saw black guys crossing the street peeing while they did so, didn’t even slow down. In a decent neighborhood.
That was long ago, and I was shocked. Now, I don’t even want to visit SanFran.
Same goes with traffic laws all over the US. Red light, no one around, buzz through.
That district also has the most murders in Sacramento.
Yes, they sometimes walk down the center of a street in large groups, forcing motorists to drive at two miles per hour to keep from hitting them. Sometimes they will meet someone they know while driving on a residential street so both cars will stop and the drivers will talk through the open windows and if others have to stop because of them they will not move until they finish their conversation as if the whole street belongs to them and no one else has any rights. Then they talk about not being respected after they have shown no respect whatsoever to others who might want to travel the street.
Back in 1977, when I got my Wonder Dobe, he had been trained by his original owner.
Imagine my surprise, when I first took him with me in my car, and he, upon sighting one of these street strutters slowly moseying across the road, duly launched himself out the open car window and chased the ‘youth’ for two blocks, before returning and leaping back in the window, grinning and nub-tail wagging.
I called the former owner and he said “Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I taught him that.”.
o.O
The purpose of jaywalking laws is to prevent vehicular injury of inattentive or impaired pedestrians. Unless the Sacramento PD is citing people who aren’t actually jaywalking, enforcement in this case is an affirmation that Black Lives Matter. Those opposing enforcement need to explain why they would prefer that black people be run down, injured, or killed.
It’s a passive-aggressive thing.
I don’t go to WalMart much anymore because of it.
The Wide Loads will block the aisles with their carts and yuge asses, for gab fests, forcing everyone else to go back and around from the other side of the aisle.
[Maybe I should start taking the Dobes shopping]
Reading the description of the full gauntlet required in order to reach their destination even had they somehow miraculously survived the first highway makes it pretty clear that is a Darwin Awards account, and not a jaywalking story.
I was of the belief that pedestrians *always* have legal right of way, crosswalks or not, and I always stop to let people cross, just out of courtesy.
Apparently, it’s only really “illegal” to run them down if they’re in a crosswalk.
Case in point, people often get killed crossing the Dual Highway, outside of Hagerstown and no one has been charged for hitting them, since they’ve all been hit when crossing in random areas.
At least once, the person who hit and killed someone was a Hagerstown cop.
I wondered where that came from, thanks.
Depends upon the jurisdiction, as to whether or not pedestrians always have the right of way. Urban and leftist areas (but I repeat myself) are almost always in the “always” column due to innate hostility to motor vehicles, in my opinion. Elsewhere, motor vehicle drivers aren’t presumed to be able to bring their vehicles to an immediate stop whenever some doofus decides to step into the roadway, and are not charged if striking a pedestrian is unavoidable.
I never go to Walmart.
For any reason or product, ever.
I can’t even stand to look at it. My blood pressure goes up.
Jaywalking is serious because our roads are designed to function a certain way and in WASP cultures they function very well; cruising in the fast/passing lane is another example of this breaking down (often with white perps). You can’t half one segment of the population driving according to the rules and another putting everyone’s lives at risk by ignoring them. Jaywalking is serious in NYC as well (and on many streets they have barriers to prevent it) because nothing works if people move through vehicle traffic like migrating wildebeests...
Nowadays expecting anything civilized from urbanized blacks is considered racism; this includes learning, working, registering/insuring vehicles, and now obeying traffic signals and laws.
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