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The enforcement of minor violations are consistently shown to have racial disparities. 1/2 https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1312522999556259840
Read the press release by @BeverlyHillsPD and notice how it completely glosses over the search. This is the humiliation that Black people face in this country day in and day out. https://twitter.com/beverlyhillspd/status/1312164644836896768?s=21
Not just Beverly Hills, of course, policing throughout Southern California is aggressive with targeted enforcement of jaywalking. ProPublic found large racial disparities in Jacksonville, FL https://features.propublica.org/walking-while-black/jacksonville-pedestrian-violations-racial-profiling/
In Sacramento, black residents received 50% of tickets but are 15% of residents: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article144743834.html
NYC, where EVERYONE jaywalks, NYPD issued 316 summons from Jan to Sept 2019. 89% of recipients were black or Hispanic according to @StreetsblogNYC https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/01/08/nypd-targets-blacks-and-latinos-for-jaywalking-tickets/
It’s not just jaywalking. A new study by @lccrsf found that a Black adult in California is 9.7 times more likely to receive a citation for a local infraction than a white adult. https://lccrsf.org/newsroom/news-press-releases/new-report-reveals-thousands-of-infractions-enforced-against-black-latinx-and-unhoused-californians-for-sitting-sleeping-and-standing-2/
Solutions: 1. Collect, measure and disseminate all stop, enforcement, 911, and officer activity data.
2. Scrub the books of low level behavior that shouldn’t be treated as crimes
3. Decrease scope of enforcement. Police spend less than 7% of time responding to calls for crimes.
2. Scrub the books of low level behavior that shouldn’t be treated as crimes
3. Decrease scope of enforcement. Police spend less than 7% of time responding to calls for crimes.
