Re:Amazon Ring’s neighborhood watch app is making police req...
by OJFord on Thursday June 03, 2021 @08:07PM
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> Jaywalking is typically (i.e. I know of now jurisdiction in the west where it's not)
In the UK it doesn't even exist. We look it up after hearing the word on N American 'movies'/TV 'shows'.
> a civil infraction
IANAL, but my understanding is that the key difference between criminal & civil law is that the latter always has a (an alleged) victim, and it is he who is the claimant.
Is that wrong? Or right but there's some supposed victim of 'jaywalking' (the state on behalf of drivers?!) who goes around suing 'jaywalkers'?
In the UK it doesn't even exist. We look it up after hearing the word on N American 'movies'/TV 'shows'.
> a civil infraction
IANAL, but my understanding is that the key difference between criminal & civil law is that the latter always has a (an alleged) victim, and it is he who is the claimant.
Is that wrong? Or right but there's some supposed victim of 'jaywalking' (the state on behalf of drivers?!) who goes around suing 'jaywalkers'?