Racial bias in enforcement
Between 2012 and 2017, 55 percent of pedestrian citations were issued to black people, who make up just 29 percent of the city’s population.
In other words, black people in Jacksonville are three times more likely to be ticketed for a pedestrian infraction than white people. And the disparity is worse in the city’s poorest neighborhoods, where black residents are six time more likely to get stopped than white residents citywide.
Police use jaywalking as a pretext to search people without cause
Jacksonville police were unapologetic about using jaywalking-type infractions as a pretext for stopping and searching people.
“Shame on him that gives me a legal reason to stop him,” Jacksonville Undersheriff Patrick Ivey told reporters.
Rules about walking are impossible to follow
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