Lower-class people tend to walk more for reasons related to expensive car maintenance. Are blacks more often lower-class? Sure, but that’s a different issue entirely.
>From Jan. 1 to March 31, the NYPD wrote 80 tickets for illegal crossing — less than one a day in a city of more than eight million people — and only one went to a person identified in police logs as “white.”
So unless you think the "lower class" is 98% people of color, it's clear that the bias here is race-based, not inherent in the population.
[1] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/05/07/nypds-racial-bias-in-...
It’s a nice talking point, I’ll grant you, but it won’t hold up to scrutiny on HN.
Are you seriously proposing that 98% people of color could be a representative sample of jaywalkers, or are you a bad troll? That pretty clearly shows a bias in the level of policing.
As I said, all you have to do is spend an hour (or even ten minutes) in midtown Manahattan to see that everyone jaywalks all the time in NYC.
In fact, we don't call it jaywalking, we call it "crossing the street."
And the fact that out of 8.5 million people, only 80 were cited and 79 of those were people of color (and all 80 male), it's not only obvious that such citations are motivated by something other than "routine" law enforcement, but it's clearly just a trumped up charge to stop someone they wanted to stop anyway.
Spend an hour in midtown Manhattan and you'll see that's absolutely the case.
> All but one of the jaywalking tickets issued by NYPD cops in the first quarter of this year went to blacks or Hispanics
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/05/07/nypds-racial-bias-in-...