Reply to Proposal to Stop Enforcing Speeding Tickets

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Proposal to Stop Enforcing Speeding Tickets"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. I took a quick read of the study. It just shows that cameras in black neighborhoods (ie EOTR) are clocking up the lion’s share of ticket revenue, but doesn’t say anything about where the drivers who are getting those tickets live. For anyone who has ever driven EOTR, the results are unsurprising. A small but not insignificant number of cars on any given EOTR road are driven extremely fast. Much more so than elsewhere in the city. Many - but not all - of these cars have MD plates. So, no, I don’t think the fact that there are cameras EOTR racking up huge numbers of tickets demonstrates any racial bias. Rather, it just confirms what many of us have seen with our own eyes - that there are a numerically small but relatively high number of vehicles being driven very dangerously through predominantly black neighborhoods.[/quote]

Nailed it. When I first moved to DC, I lived in Near SW along M St. This was when the ballpark was built. I was appalled with how fast people drove in this predominantly black and poor neighborhood.

Drivers of all races, genders, and ages drove way too fast in the neighborhood because there are no penalties for dangerous driving in DC and especially in poor neighborhoods.

So it's absolutely outrageous when aholes like Trayon White cry about how speed cameras in poor neighborhoods are "racist" when they're needed the most there. Along with road diets, which he also fights.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics