'Jaywalking While Black': Final 2019 Numbers Show Race-Based NYPD Crackdown Continues

[Demovictory9]

he final 2019 numbers for “jaywalking” summonses are in and … the NYPD is still carrying out a racially suspect policy of ticketing black and Hispanic pedestrians.

Over the entire year, cops issued 90 percent of illegal walking tickets citywide to blacks and Hispanics, mirroring Streetsblog’s findings for the first three-quarters of 2019 — an investigation that led to strong denunciations of the NYPD from a wide range of political officials.

The final numbers for 2019 reveal:

Total tickets issued for illegal or unsafe crossing: 397

Tickets issued to blacks and Hispanics (where race is indicated on the summons): 354 (89.8 percent).

To people aged 25 and under: 213 (53.6 percent)

Blacks and Hispanics comprise about 55 percent of the population. People between 18 and 25 are roughly 7 percent.

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

[Doreen]

1. Awwe

It is only because they care and do not want any of them to get hit.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. FTP.

[Ron Green]

3. A little research shows the term "jaywalking" was invented and promoted by

the nascent automobile associations in the 1920s as they sought to wrest city streets away from pedestrians and give them to car drivers. Thousands of years of walking were overturned in about a decade.