The US’s jaywalking laws target people of color. They should be abolished.

The article does not demonstrate its thesis - that people of color are disproportionately targeted. All it demonstrates is that people of color disproportionately jaywalk.

Not quite. Using that logic would mean the coke-crack sentencing disparity wasn't racist, it was just on black people for smoking crack disproportionately.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/01/27/jaywalking-while-black-final-2019-numbers-show-race-based-nypd-crackdown-continues/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/17/us-jaywalking-laws-target-people-of-colour-they-should-be-abolished

So you see police essentially claiming 90% of all jaywalkers are black or hispanic and you think that number shows that minorities are just really criminal rather than maybe the cops are stopping minorities for shit they let white people literally walk for?

I can definitely sympathize with the notion that we have far too many roads for cars and insufficient roads for people.

That's not what this discussion is about.

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