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They are going to target offenders. Minorities happen to have higher rates of offense. These are not the same things.
by xanderlenz 4y ago
They are going to target offenders. Minorities happen to have higher rates of offense. These are not the same things.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> Minorities happen to have higher rates of offense Anecdotally, in midtown, this isn’t true. (The Jersey plate correlation is.) Keep in mind that making one’s vehicle flatulate isn't cheap.
- selfhifive 4y agoSince minorities are more likely to buy old used cars that make more noise in general they will have higher rates of offense.
- scarface74 4y agoIt’s called “selective enforcement”.
- joecool1029 4y agoRead the act[1]. It's targeting modifications like ripping the baffles out of motorcycle exhaust or having open headers. I had a friend back in college that did this to a street motorcycle and it was audible for over 3 miles at night in the suburbs, absolutely absurdly loud. Rusted out exhaust pipes from road salt in NYC on cars will make them louder but nothing like what I'm describing. Basically makes them have an annoying low pitched rumble similar to what those stupid $40 ricer 'fart can' modifications would. Few orders of magnitude of a difference between loudness. [1] https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/S784B https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/S784B
- maccard 4y agoI have a "noisy" unmodified car, and my neighbour has an Abarth with a modified exhaust. I haven't measured the noise difference for an exact number, but I'd wager his car is about 15x louder than mine. _No_ old unmodified cars are going to be caught by any laws that are aiming to capture nuisance laws.
- chasd00 4y agoso what? a noisy car is a noisy car.
- scarface74 4y agoYou did notice from the article how many minorities are stopped by police and then not even ticketed compared to non minorities?