Police doing what the police were tasked to do from the start.

part of the reason why the country is so car-dependent is specifically to fuck over non-rich non-white people.

If you can’t afford driving everywhere they’ve set it up so you have to break the law to get where you’re going, and of course the highways were built through poor black neighbourhoods downtown so now most people are forced to live in suburbs where it’s barely possible to walk in the first place.

This absolutely makes no sense. North america suburbs and neighbors that have no sidewalks are generally low volume and low speed streets. These are “community areas” IMO and should have a pedestrian orientation first and foremost.

On these types of neighborhood streets pedestrian are and should be more then allowed to utilize the street either as a pedestrian walking or a pedestrian on a bike.

As a individual in a car when you drive through a neighbourhood street you should adjust you driving as if there are a bunch of children potentially on the street.

I find the trouble is in north america is we don’t classify our roadways well and definitely don’t differentiate well between a street, a road, a high speed road, and a highway.

This is why we get this weird over-engineering of suburban streets that look like roads where people want to drive at high speeds inside the suburb. And then at the exact same time we get roads (that should have been roads) that are a weird merging between a road and a street (a stroad) all around cities.

What’s bad is when you jump from “I don’t personally experience this” to “so it isn’t a real problem” instead of to “and nobody else should have to either”

I had to walk home 6 miles in the evening for a period of time and was harassed repeatedly and made to wait while they again “ran my information” to make sure I didn’t have a record since last time. Finally I said a bad word while walking away and they arrested me for bad language on the public roadway a charge that is obviously illegal.

I made this argument to a fellow who became a judge when that state didn’t require judges to have a high school education who obviously didn’t care. Wrote a paper on why you can’t do that. They dropped the case for lack of action then re-raised it and denied my appeal after I had left the state. I’m a white dude and I was dressed decently but being on foot at night clearly marked me either as a troublemaker or at best as one of the poor.