Mike D.@lemm.ee to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoHow Car Culture Funnels Drivers Into Debt, Jail, and Dangernewrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down112
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minus-squareIzzyDatalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoIt’s pretty wild that cars might be the primarily way that police engage with and harass citizens. What would they do if everyone wasn’t forced to have a car? Start picking people out at “random” in a crowd on the sidewalk?
minus-squareThurstylark@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoUh… Yeah. Pretty much.^1 ^1 : See: NYPD’s history of Stop and Frisk
It’s pretty wild that cars might be the primarily way that police engage with and harass citizens. What would they do if everyone wasn’t forced to have a car? Start picking people out at “random” in a crowd on the sidewalk?
Uh… Yeah. Pretty much.^1
^1 : See: NYPD’s history of Stop and Frisk