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Did you read the article? Pedestrians can always cross but they then don't have the right of way and have to yield to traffic. Basically everyone can keep doing
by hnbad 2y ago
Did you read the article? Pedestrians can always cross but they then don't have the right of way and have to yield to traffic. Basically everyone can keep doing what they've been doing all along but police can no longer arrest them for it through selective enforcement.
- nobody9999 2y ago>Did you read the article? Pedestrians can always cross but they then don't have the right of way and have to yield to traffic. Basically everyone can keep doing what they've been doing all along but police can no longer arrest them for it through selective enforcement. As a lifelong New Yorker, I can tell you that arrest is never an option for any violation of the city's administrative code. Rather it's a fine. And as you alluded to, black and brown people were the vast majority of those fined under the jaywalking regulation. As a cis white guy, I didn't even know that jaywalking was 'illegal' in NYC until folks started talking about 'legalizing' it a few years ago. As I mentioned, I've lived here pretty much all my life and have 'jaywalked' in front of police hundreds if not thousands of times and none have ever even looked at me funny. So yes, this is a very good thing. Just one very, very small step on the road to 'a more perfect union', IMHO.
- Exoristos 2y agoHow do they fine you without arresting you? Tape a citation to your back as you walk past?
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoMost people's idea of arrest means taken into custody, rather than the actual meaning of stopped. If they prevent you from walking away, you are arrested.
- nobody9999 2y agohttps://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/arrest https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/arrest
- nobody9999 2y agoIf a state trooper pulls you over in your car for speeding or throwing trash out of your car window to give you a ticket, are you now under arrest? https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/arrest https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/arrest
- gotoeleven 2y ago[flagged]
- hnbad 2y agoYeah, I guess I used "arrest" in the figurative sense (i.e. stopping and fining), not necessarily for taking someone into police custody. This might be the language barrier, as other replies to your comment also seem to misue the term in that sense.