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Is it possible that "people of color" account for 90% of the total people who jaywalked in NYC in 2019? Unless all data and all variables in the argument are ma

• woodruffw 6y ago
  > Is it possible that "people of color" account for 90% of the total people who jaywalked in NYC in 2019? No. I cannot say this in strong enough terms: every single person in NYC jaywalks. Jaywalk ticketing is part of a longstanding policy of the NYPD, which is to use any occasion that presents itself to frisk people they deem "suspicious." The NYPD's definition of "suspicious," in turn, looks a lot like a colorwheel.
  • frickenhamster 6y ago
    There's different levels of jaywalking. There's walking across the streets when there's no car and everyone is doing it. And then there's the crazies who walk across open traffic on a green light where there are cars speeding along causing accidents. A large percent of the homeless and drug addicts in cities are minorities.
    • woodruffw 6y ago
      > A large percent of the homeless and drug addicts in cities are minorities. I'm sorry, but what exactly are we supposed to derive from this claim? That unprompted police frisking under the pretense of jaywalking is acceptable so long as the jaywalker is a member of a vulnerable class?
• 1MachineElf 6y ago
  In the case of Baltimore, it certainly seems that way.
  • leetcrew 6y ago
    the city is 63% black, so I guess they have a head start. I certainly see plenty of white folks jaywalking in fed, roland park, etc.