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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The article suggests that the increase is due to poorly lit roads and drunk drivers. Those feel like solvable issues to me.[/quote]

No amount of road dieting will stop someone from driving drunk. We need human enforcement. Unfortunately, the Council says human enforcement is racist so that doesn't happen anymore. And with the no-chase policy, all anyone has to do is drive away from the police. There literally is nothing they can do about it.[/quote]

It’s not just drunk driving. Very few people drive drunk during the day and yet every pedestrian in DC has experienced plenty of homicidal driving during the day. The problem is, as you correctly deduce, that most drivers in DC know that there are zero consequences for doing almost anything on the streets of DC and most surrounding counties and so are doing whatever they want. I consider myself a cautious driver but have now go through yellow lights that I previously would have stopped for because, well, everyone is doing it (a practice I have to consciously change when outside of the DMV lest I get ticketed). We are living with the results of enforcement being almost entirely outsourced to cameras and those consequences are the increase in fatalities.[/quote]

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