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How many people have they killed this year?

Just two days Dorothy Bruns in Park Slope ran through a red light, killed a four year old and a one year old. A pregnant woman is still in critical condition. She hasn't been arrested.

Maybe the NYPD should concentrate on felonies before worrying about violations.

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The “how many people have been killed” is a really poor test of if something is right or wrong.

"They startled me" is a bad reason to think something is unsafe. I'd wager if you saturated the streets of any American city with "rude" ebike riders, the serious injury rate would go down pretty quickly, as drivers learned to accept humans in the street.

As long as an alternative is regularly killing people, it seems like a decent test to me.

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