A black mom was trying to cross the street from a bus stop, because the nearest crosswalk was almost a mile away. A driver hits her child and she gets blamed for “jay walking”. Just an insanely evil country.
He pleaded guilty to hit-and-run, his third such offence
Three strikes policy must become a thing for reckless driving and related offences. After your third conviction you never get to drive a car again in your life.
“They’d just drive anyway”
Mandatory prison sentence and vehicle confiscation, regardless of who owns it. Unless it’s literaly stolen, it’s the owner’s responsibility to ensure the driver is legally allowed to drive.
“But not being able to drive is undue hardship”
Tough.
Being dead is undue hardship
Three strike policies are shown to not decrease incidence of crime whatsoever, but rather primarily contribute to our already severely overcrowded prisons, and to people refusing to turn themselves in due to fear of imprisonment, to the point people will commit additional crimes just to stay out of jail.
Carceral Justice doesn’t work, and it’s purely reactionary to suggest it in any circumstance given it’s lack of efficacy.
“But not being able to drive is undue hardship”
Tough.More like, “Good.”
Maybe then some of those folks would start helping to lobby for zoning reform!
Jay walking laws are evil in the first place.
Gotta be careful when crossing the road
The article says the nearest crossing was 0.3 miles away. It’s still bad but you’re making it sound worse than it is.
Still, I thought it was legal to cross if the nearest crosswalk was more than a block away. I’m sure it’s a "depends on the state thing…still bullshit though
Wait, there are countries where crossing the road can be a crime? Screw that.
In the US early in the auto age it became a crime…like loitering, only enforced when convenient.
If you dislike that you’ll reeeally hate how many times bikers get blamed for getting run over…
I dunno, I’m from a place where jaywalking doesn’t exist.
Ah probably germany, even at night. No cars driving, waiting at a red light.
No…the UK. Jaywalking as a concept doesn’t exist, you’re entitled to cross the road wherever it’s safe (* with exceptions).
That’s still 10mins of walking. Fuck that.
Oh absolutely, but it’s not 40 minutes of walking like OP implied.
More of a “fuck racism” thing than a “fuck cars” thing imo…
