In first two months of California daylighting law, San Diego police gives out 4,200 tickets
4,200 tickets given out in San Diego in first two months of California’s daylighting law
The law makes it illegal for drivers to park their cars within 20 feet of a crosswalk, on the side of the street that faces the crosswalk.
If they are not being discriminatory and actually legitimately fining people, then I'd say this is a huge win.
The fact that over 4000 people were CAUGHT means there must have been tens of thousands doing it over those two months.
The only way they could be discriminatory with this campaign is if they disagreed with the owners bumper stickers. So I think it's safe to say that there was no discrimination.
Given that most cities have areas with varying proportions of people of different ethnicities, yeah it can be discriminatory. They just target certain neighborhoods and know that those are far more likely to be people of a certain background. Not saying they did or didn't do it here, but that's how they can do things like that.
There also general differences in the types of infrastructure that could also correlate.
Higher income areas often have larger land plots, and while there may be plenty of nice sidewalks, crosswalks would likely be fewer and far between, so there would be less infrastructure affected by this.
There are a lot of ways discrimination can be seen de despite it not being a factor. Although discrimination via other factors obviously results in those differences in the first place. Lots of correlation without direct causation when it comes to things like this specifically.
It would be interesting to see a map with where the ticked offense took place with demographic data. There is. Fair chance that minorities get the short end on this.
Well it could also depend on area, the type of car, the officer knows who owns the car. Discrimination can be subtle and unconscious a lot of the time.
Crosswalks that aren't painted with white stripes still count. Some curbs are unpainted, some are painted red less than 20 feet. Some are painted 20 feet out.
How many people do you think parked short of a red curb and near a crosswalk the city didn't bother to stripe? Maybe properly mark the curbs before you start fining people $240,000 a month?
Why would you need curbs to be marked?
Over here in Germany parking 5 meters in front of crosswalks is illegal. No curb is ever striped, anywhere. If you are unsure whether you are too close you are expected to measure.
Because right now this law is only done in one small area and only on one side of the road. We have more universal laws, like no parking within 15 feet of a stop sign, but this isn't one of them.