‘I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City
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New law, letting people cross street outside of crosswalk, ends racial disparities in enforcement, council member says

The new law permits pedestrians to cross a roadway at any point, including outside of a crosswalk. It also allows for crossing against traffic signals and specifically states that doing so is no longer a violation of the city’s administrative code. But the new law also warns that pedestrians crossing outside of a crosswalk do not have the right of way and that they should yield to other traffic that has the right of way.

  • zarp86English
    19•25 days ago

    Council member Mercedes Narcisse, a Brooklyn Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said on Tuesday that the new law ends racial disparities in enforcement, noting that more than 90% of the jaywalking tickets issued last year went to Black and Latino people.

    Never heard of Walking While Black? This at least forces police to come up with better excuses.

    • @ClinicallydepressedpoochieEnglish
      5•25 days ago

      No you’re right. Jaywalking was abused to target minorities but never did the law ever do anything to prevent it from happening.

      • sunzu2
        1•25 days ago

        Thats the beauty of the law. All bad faith actors are able to get a use case, the rest gets fucked