Forcing drivers to stop, which in some neighborhoods is not wise.
Black kids are raised to DISrespect the law whenever they can. At least in SOME neighborhoods they are.
Of course the so-called "minorities" on the city council are committed to making it impossible to enforce ANY law.
jay-z-walking
I used to live in Sacramento and I know very well the both of those two neighborhoods are extremely bad:
generally when you see this kind of crazy disparity the cops are using the law as a way to easily get at someone who chronically causes lots of trouble, but it’s very hard to prove.
it’s like the seat belt law; they don’t actually want it ticket you for just the seatbelt, they’re using it as an excuse.
my guess is that most of the people who received these jaywalking tickets were known to officers as troublemakers, littering, pan-handling, public drunkenness, drug dealing, etc.
YUTES.
‘Racial profiling’
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Are they saying blacks are far more stupid? Or are they saying they’re far more lawless?
This is Sacramento, a liberal haven and hotbed of racism.
Just so. When I was in Manhattan, you’d see blacks jaywalking all over the place, and also striding down the sidewalk and expecting whites to get out of their way. Black women were the worst walkers on the sidewalks. They wouldn’t give an inch, and you might have to step into the gutter to avoid having them plow into you.
“North Sacramento” is RIO LINDA, by the way.
Made famous by Rush cuz at an early point in his local broadcast career it often seemed that the craziest, most troublesome calls originated from there.
I think I’ve seen a lot of the intentional “eff you white boy” slow walking and stuff, but I suspect that California’s budget problems are hitting everywhere and they are looking for revenue enhancement.
The city councilman complaining about racial profiling, is like a Chicago official complaining that the police arresting more black people in South Chicago, for murder and gun violations than white people, is not fair to the blacks.
Jaywalking and racism are not the problems here. It is respect for the law that is taking it on the chin.
Actually percentages coincide with the general lawlessness of that demographic.
More pathetic is the certainty that anyone driving who hits one of these jaywalking buggers will be judged at fault. This is California after all.
“It’s not unusual to see them walking in the middle of the road, or crossing wherever they please.
Forcing drivers to stop, which in some neighborhoods is not wise.
Black kids are raised to DISrespect the law whenever they can. At least in SOME neighborhoods they are.
Of course the so-called “minorities” on the city council are committed to making it impossible to enforce ANY law. “
That’s all true, unfortunately. But beating the $hit out of this guy didn’t do anything to make things better either.
I’ve jaywalked myself, when traffic is light and you just need to get across the street it seems stupid to have to go around your backside to get to your elbow by walking to the marked crosswalk. But, it there for a reason and it’s been made into law for a reason, and that reason doesn’t involve wanting to inconvenience you or anybody else. It’s there to keep pedestrians from being run down by passing vehicles. That’s an agreeable goal, I’d think even militant, racially-oriented activists would admit. So, use the crosswalks. Pretty simple, really. We’re all better off for it.
Worst incident of jaywalking ever.
http://www.local10.com/news/woman-killed-kids-hurt-attempting-to-cross-palmetto-expressway
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.