The enforcement of minor violations are consistently shown to have racial disparities. 1/2 https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1312522999556259840">https://twitter.com/christoq/...
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">https://twitter.com/beverlyhi...
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/">https://features.propublica.org/walking-w...
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.
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