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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it is racist. You know there will be a 'disproportionate number of stops with minorities', which will lead to a bunch of uproar. Enforcing the rules and law is racist if too many nonwhite people get stopped. That's the world we live in. It's looney toons, but that's what the voters want. [/quote]

I remember reading an article about how San Francisco was trying to cut down on fare evasion in the BART.  They said that past enforcement had been racially biased, so they went to a system that would eliminate that bias. This consisted of randomly picking a car and then checking everyone on board.  Turns out that doing that led to very disproportionate number of African Americans being ticked.  So, that system was scrapped as well. [/quote]

Really? I'm not familiar with the background, but the first story I found was "Nearly half of BART fare-evasion citations go to blacks, but board votes to expand the enforcement program" (https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Nearly-half-of-BART-fare-evasion-citations-go-to-13264277.php) [/quote]

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